The not-quite-so-numerous joys of performance tuning the
AIX!
I began writing some
shell scripts to benchmark the monster today, and did pretty well. So did the monster, cranking out invoices and who-knows-what left and right, its performance just shy of the
AS/400. That boss-like individual stopped by and was quite surprised by my recent progress and was happy to learn that
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The AIX was up and running, doing business transactions like there was no tomorrow,
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The benchmarking scripts would probably run on the Solaris boxen and possibly other platforms as well.
In fact, he was so overjoyed he wanted a report on the progress. Sigh. That is the reason I'm still at work
waiting for the monster to churn out some
numbers and
pretty pictures to include in the report.
Well, at least the weather is improving. I'll ask some of my
cute girls-on-standby if they feel up to some
mexican beer and lounging in the sun tomorrow.
OK, that's pretty much it. Got some
work out to do.
Music for today:
Underwater Love by
Smoke City and
Life in Mono by
Mono.
Update 1820: Oooh,
thunderheads on the horizon! I might just stick around for a while, this could be interesting.