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Monday April 04, 2005 No more death threats, but I had a thought that it might be as the
mutts start on their daily walk they bark for the first hundred yards -
maybe we have a night shift worker nearby. Visited my parents,
very relaxing in their rural back garden,
shame its a nine hour round trip.
Closed lots of escalations that timed out whilst I was on vacation, I always find it slightly disappointing when escalations sort of petter out rather than getting a technical solution. Our sunray server runs us under the Fair Share Scheduler ( man FSS) which is rather good as I spend a lot of time writing testcases to exhibit customer problems. One program I call the "thingy scheduler" it has multiple processes that share a MAP_SHARED segment, in that segment are a load of stacks and contexts, so using setcontext/getcontext and alarm() the contexts get timesliced between the various processes without a hint of libthread. It is all run from a config file and I mistakenly started it with 200 processes and ... no one complained. Instead of swamping the machine I had 29% of the cpu resources.
This morning was taken debating pci bus standards with a third party vendor. The customer has done an excellent job of managing all the vendors and gathering data. I don't think it is our problem as the defect is observed deep down on a pci bus in a third party pci expansion unit with third party cards and drivers but it is interesting helping them move to a quick solution as well as streching my meagre knowledge of pci standards.
Lots of miles in the smart car. ABS worked well when someone failed to stop at a T junction.
Many miles in the Bus, 42 mpg with 6 of us and luggage travelling in comfort.
26 miles on the bike, now were are in GMT I have ditched all the lights but the LED front and back lights.
We are going camping this summer, so with the dogs we need a trailer to hold all the stuff, I need to choose a big suitable trailer -will it be a Ifor Williams one?