This is pretty cool because back in the dot com days I got paid huge amounts of money to do what they did in the first 60 seconds. I started at $1000/day and t

This is pretty cool because back in the dot com days I got paid huge amounts of money to do what they did in the first 60 seconds. I started at $1000/day and the phone rang off the hook. Talked to a friend and he said "double your rates" and I said "WTF? I'm not worth $2000/day, that's crazy". He said "double your rates". So I did, phone still rang like crazy. I got up to $4000/day and had 5 days/week work. Went to $8000/day and got about 3-4 more days and then it dried up. And that is how I made payroll for BitKeeper in the early days. I think it's cool that this stuff is far more common knowledge these days. All I was doing was figuring out if it was CPU, network, disks, file system, vm system, memory. 99% of the time I knew what the problem was in a few minutes, all the real effort was tracking down what program (or programs) were causing it. Funny enough, most people didn't care what cause was, they just wanted to know what to buy to make it not an issue. Crazy amounts of money being thrown at Sun equipment.