Found the Gremlins
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So our dev test machine where I work has been super slow lately. One of my coworkers found out the reason... the "systems" team reduced the CPU, memory, and disk space on the VM (our dev "machine" is apparently a virtual machine). They are fixing it now, and I know who to blame when stuff goes wrong from now on. :-D
I always get a chuckle when our IT teams calls ME the developer to ask what <insert server name> is for and is anyone still using it.
Todd Smith
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AspDotNetDev wrote:
(our dev "machine" is apparently a virtual machine).
I'm not at all surprised. Someone told me that most of the work that you do is virtual.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
Someone
Chris Maunder?
Henry Minute wrote:
most of the work that you do is virtual
Hence, my MVP award. :)
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I always get a chuckle when our IT teams calls ME the developer to ask what <insert server name> is for and is anyone still using it.
Todd Smith
That's usually how things have gone at every place I've worked. Them: is [such and such] being used by anybody? Me: *shrug* uh, maybe, maybe not. Them: we'll just disable it and wait for somebody to complain. Me: :doh:
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Henry Minute wrote:
Someone
Chris Maunder?
Henry Minute wrote:
most of the work that you do is virtual
Hence, my MVP award. :)
AspDotNetDev wrote:
Hence, my MVP award.
Makes perfect sense. Something has to be sacrificed in order to make a telling contribution. :)
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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That's usually how things have gone at every place I've worked. Them: is [such and such] being used by anybody? Me: *shrug* uh, maybe, maybe not. Them: we'll just disable it and wait for somebody to complain. Me: :doh:
Two years ago my dev team was consumed by the larger dev team of our parent company, and we moved offices and floors within the same building. We had in our own little office 3 servers as well as our desktops. One of the servers which was running Share Point and some web app test environments has not been seen since the day we moved. They claim it was moved into the server rooms somewhere, but it is not on (the network) and they cannot locate the physical box.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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AspDotNetDev wrote:
Hence, my MVP award.
Makes perfect sense. Something has to be sacrificed in order to make a telling contribution. :)
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
Something has to be sacrificed in order to make a telling contribution.
In that case, I suspect Sacha Barber sacrificed his first three first borns.
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Henry Minute wrote:
Something has to be sacrificed in order to make a telling contribution.
In that case, I suspect Sacha Barber sacrificed his first three first borns.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
In that case, I suspect Sacha Barber sacrificed his first three first borns.
Now that would be telling.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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So our dev test machine where I work has been super slow lately. One of my coworkers found out the reason... the "systems" team reduced the CPU, memory, and disk space on the VM (our dev "machine" is apparently a virtual machine). They are fixing it now, and I know who to blame when stuff goes wrong from now on. :-D
sounds like a great excuse for a new app 'Gremlin-Monitor' sits as a service on a VM uses the VM API to check the amount of resources sends an alert (via email) if the resources are decreased unexpectedly sends an alert if the organic growth/usage of that machine means the base resources should be increased... It might have been done before already ...
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Henry Minute wrote:
Someone
Chris Maunder?
Henry Minute wrote:
most of the work that you do is virtual
Hence, my MVP award. :)
AspDotNetDev wrote:
my MVP award
Most VIRTUAL player ??? ;P ;P Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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sounds like a great excuse for a new app 'Gremlin-Monitor' sits as a service on a VM uses the VM API to check the amount of resources sends an alert (via email) if the resources are decreased unexpectedly sends an alert if the organic growth/usage of that machine means the base resources should be increased... It might have been done before already ...
excellent idea! ...sometimes i'm glad i work for a small company! ...no admin to screw around with my computers! :cool: