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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:56:18 -0800
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?
Message-ID:  <20040314235618.3cbe7278.wes@softweyr.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040315074033.03b1cef0@imap.sfu.ca>
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:42:59 +0000 Colin Percival
<colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> alleged:

> At 07:32 15/03/2004, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> >Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with
> >milk and sugar for breakfast.  She expressed her satisfaction
> >yesterday at finding out that her latest program only takes four and a
> >half hours per data set.  "But honey," says I, "you have 30,000 data
> >sets!"  Quoth the love of my life, "That's OK, we've got *two*
> >computers."
>=20
> ... and 8 years to waste, apparently.

Wowsers.  Sounds like they need a cluster.  Introduce her to Dillon!  ;^)

--=20

        Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

Wes Peters                                               wes@softweyr.com



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