Re: Re: Found New Hardware
  By: Daryl Stout to TOM WALKER on Thu Jun 11 2015 10:26 am


I remember back in the day we had a finance person set up the accounting system
on "their" servers. "Servers" being underpowered
desktops with single ATA
drives.

Somehow, my group inherited this mess of systems, and regular complaints of
slowness were the norm. I'd go in the server room, look at the system --
everything seemed OK, and the app responded OK.

Later that day, more complaints of slowness. Look at everything, it all looked
OK. Later on, more complaints.

The culprit? That OpenGL "Pipes" screen saver took just enough CPU power to
draw the screen that it slowed down the app. Switching to a plain old blank
screen saver fixed the issue.

Putting it on a real server later made me a hero. It's nice to get credit for
cleaning up someone else's mess, doesn't happen often enough.   :)
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