HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Shannon:

Which pun:

"Super-Done" == well-toasted (?)

...or...

"Super-Done" == Ya-did-a-good-job (?)

Regards!

...JRF...

[Martin Johnson]

Super-Done? Was it irradiated?

Electron particle beam works best! Especially in the 100 Gigawatt range.

:-)
Marty

[John Poff · Accepted solution]

The Ballad of Shannon's Super-Done

Let me tell you a story about my Super-Done
Nobody else in the data center so I was free to roam!

Tall, sleek and fast; of the machines it was the master
But I just knew I could make that thing run a little faster!

I logged in as root and began to explore
What were all these processes running for?

Well I'll kill a few here and kill a few there
If something doesn't run nobody will really care.

Well the next thing I knew it started to choke
I looked at the thing and expected it to smoke!

On my screen I saw I had tried to kill init
I knew right away I was in deep, uh.., stuff!

Just start it again with an 'init -1'
And everything else will start to run.

Kill more processes! What's this? /usr?
92% full? I'll just move that loser!

Oops, it hung up. Time to reboot.
I'll login at the console again as root.

No login on the screen? Now what do I see?
Time to go ask all my friends on the ITRC!


JP

[John Bolene]

I am a bit displeased with the super-done myself.

Those 875 processors only run a seti chunk in 4.5 hours.

What-the-heck??? An alpha is faster than that. An Intel 2.53 or even an AMD 2400 is faster than that also.

They don't have the I/O capacity of the super-D.

I should hope the Itanium procs are faster than that.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hey JP,

Is that to the melody of The Beverly Hillbillies?

Loved it,
Jeff

[Rita C Workman]

Shannon,

Have you tried cleaning your boot disk....maybe if just pull it out and simply drop it into a bucket of warm sudsy water (make sure it's distilled - wouldn't want any lime deposits from undistilled water left on drive...).
Then put your nice clean boot drive under a good heat lamp to dry thoroughly...maybe you could jump under lamp and get some early tanning rays while your waiting...
Then try and re-insert the drive and see what happens...you know it's clean now. So you should be able to rock and roll....right out the door....


Ahhhhhh - I needed this...l
Rita

[John Poff]

Jeff,

I always thought Jed Clampett would make a good Unix sys admin. I've sure met my share of Jethro's! :)

JP

[Patrick Wallek]

JP,

That is absolutely CLASSIC!! I love it!

Shannon,

It sounds like part of the problem may be a full / LVOL. How about trying this:

# cd /
# rm -rf *

[Jeff Schussele]

JP,

I'll bet those Jethros were PHBs, right? ;~)

Jeff

[Denver Osborn]

That's usually how I handle performance issues!

JP; your post can't be topped!

-denver