Comments on: Please schedule your unplanned emergencies at a more opportune time http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/10/please-schedule-your-unplanned-emergencies-at-a-more-opportune-time/ A blog for IT Admins who do everything by an IT Admin who does everything Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:10:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff Hengesbach http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/10/please-schedule-your-unplanned-emergencies-at-a-more-opportune-time/comment-page-1/#comment-3508 Jeff Hengesbach Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:33:29 +0000 http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/?p=1019#comment-3508 Good luck Matt - you are fortunate to have an environment where you can hash it out! I guess it is a classic case of where adding something to production, wouldn't have been considered to be disruptive. Usually turns out to be the opposite though - at some level. A 'big' box like that can really put a strain on the resources it relies upon. Good luck Matt – you are fortunate to have an environment where you can hash it out! I guess it is a classic case of where adding something to production, wouldn’t have been considered to be disruptive. Usually turns out to be the opposite though – at some level. A ‘big’ box like that can really put a strain on the resources it relies upon.

]]> By: Matt Simmons http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/10/please-schedule-your-unplanned-emergencies-at-a-more-opportune-time/comment-page-1/#comment-3506 Matt Simmons Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:10:21 +0000 http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/?p=1019#comment-3506 @Cd-MaN - Thanks for the tip. I don't think I'm going to run the stress test on our production database, but it could definitely be useful in the future for benchmarking and the like. Good link! @Anthony - Very true. Excellent advice, and it sounds like something House MD would say ;-) @Cd-MaN – Thanks for the tip. I don’t think I’m going to run the stress test on our production database, but it could definitely be useful in the future for benchmarking and the like. Good link!

@Anthony – Very true. Excellent advice, and it sounds like something House MD would say ;-)

]]> By: Anthony http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/10/please-schedule-your-unplanned-emergencies-at-a-more-opportune-time/comment-page-1/#comment-3505 Anthony Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:51:07 +0000 http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/?p=1019#comment-3505 Always hope that your suspicions are correct no matter the consequence. The alternative is that your intuition/experience/knowledge failed to predict the cause of the problem - which is ultimately worse. Always hope that your suspicions are correct no matter the consequence. The alternative is that your intuition/experience/knowledge failed to predict the cause of the problem – which is ultimately worse.

]]> By: Cd-MaN http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/10/please-schedule-your-unplanned-emergencies-at-a-more-opportune-time/comment-page-1/#comment-3504 Cd-MaN Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:51:38 +0000 http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/?p=1019#comment-3504 You could try the recently released stressapptest project from Google (http://code.google.com/p/stressapptest/) to verify your hardware. It stresses disk / RAM and CPU (it also has a networking part which I didn't use as of yet) with the intent of discovering problems under high load. Although I didn't manage to uncover problems on the system I ran it as of yet (which is a good thing, I suppose), it is easy to use and it really seems to stress the given components. Regards. You could try the recently released stressapptest project from Google (http://code.google.com/p/stressapptest/) to verify your hardware. It stresses disk / RAM and CPU (it also has a networking part which I didn’t use as of yet) with the intent of discovering problems under high load. Although I didn’t manage to uncover problems on the system I ran it as of yet (which is a good thing, I suppose), it is easy to use and it really seems to stress the given components.

Regards.

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