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He's come a long way since yelling at hard drives in Sun's data centre: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCe

He's come a long way since yelling at hard drives in Sun's data centre: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 * https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2008-12-31/unusual-disk-latency.html https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2008-12-31/unusual-disk-la...

ignoramous 5y ago
> My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. Reminds me of Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle (2012), https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PUv66718DII https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PUv66718DII
perch56 5y ago
Forgot about the video and didn’t realize it’s the same person. Also reminded me of this 2016 incident that happened in an ING data center https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37337868.amp https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37337868.amp
- teddyh 5y ago
  Fire suppression systems are no joke: https://www.sanitarium.net/jokes/getjoke.cgi?183 https://www.sanitarium.net/jokes/getjoke.cgi?183
hobo_mark 5y ago
That's him?!? That was thirteen years ago?!? I have to sit down for a minute...
orangepanda 5y ago
I wonder for how long they were debugging the performance issue, when screaming at a server rack seemed a worthwhile idea
maxmcd 5y ago
A video posted by Bryan Cantrill no less.
- throw0101a 5y ago
  At the time of the video they were working on the "Fishworks"† project: * http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/11/10/fishworks-now-it-can-be-told/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/11/10/fishworks-now-it-can-... † A play on Lockheed Martin's "Skunkworks".
dilippkumar 5y ago
> yelling at hard drives in Sun's data centre I didn’t expect this to be so… literal.
- 0des 5y ago
  Wait till you find out about "parking" your drives
- jacquesm 5y ago
  It worked too, you could replicate this easily yourself. A bit harder with an SSD ;)

ignoramous 5y ago

> My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. Reminds me of Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle (2012), https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PUv66718DII https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PUv66718DII

perch56 5y ago

Forgot about the video and didn’t realize it’s the same person. Also reminded me of this 2016 incident that happened in an ING data center https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37337868.amp https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37337868.amp

teddyh 5y ago
Fire suppression systems are no joke: https://www.sanitarium.net/jokes/getjoke.cgi?183 https://www.sanitarium.net/jokes/getjoke.cgi?183

hobo_mark 5y ago

That's him?!? That was thirteen years ago?!? I have to sit down for a minute...

orangepanda 5y ago

I wonder for how long they were debugging the performance issue, when screaming at a server rack seemed a worthwhile idea

maxmcd 5y ago

A video posted by Bryan Cantrill no less.

throw0101a 5y ago
At the time of the video they were working on the "Fishworks"† project: * http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/11/10/fishworks-now-it-can-be-told/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/11/10/fishworks-now-it-can-... † A play on Lockheed Martin's "Skunkworks".

dilippkumar 5y ago

> yelling at hard drives in Sun's data centre I didn’t expect this to be so… literal.

0des 5y ago
Wait till you find out about "parking" your drives
jacquesm 5y ago
It worked too, you could replicate this easily yourself. A bit harder with an SSD ;)