Driven Beyond the Endurance of a Normal Man
[PDA, a systems engineer, tries to salvage the reputation of sysadmins at the risk of his sanity]
> Dishonesty aside, Rabett has now shown, quite conclusively, he has no idea how connecting to servers works.
Indeed, another clueless individual made a similar bone-headed suggestion:
> If you do programmatic retrieval, it is usually considered good manners to insert a delay of at least 1 second between requests so as not to load the server.
http://climateaudit.org/2007/05/17/giss-blocks-data-access/#comment-88225
Another idiot offered a link [1] purporting to present “performance hints,” and added the inane observation that
> While the execution time of a script can be significantly reduced by using faster CPUs, the invocation is disk I/O bound.
What a maroon!
Another fool said he
> slept for a full 4 seconds between each station request and ran it overnight on the weekends.
http://climateaudit.org/2007/05/17/giss-blocks-data-access/#comment-88234
Clearly driven beyond the endurance of any normal man, Mr McIntyre’s response was
> In retrospect, I would have put a sleep instruction – BTW how do you do that?
[1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Minimal/lib/CGI/Minimal.pod#Performance_Hints
(Source: rankexploits.com)
