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Poor Mario

Now I know how poor Mario feels. This is the wonderful week before EclipseCon where every man, woman and child abuses the eclipse.org servers in order to get everything ready for the big party conference.


In revenge, the servers just lob every known error and warning at us, expecting us to solve everything and save the poor little committer (portrayed here by Kim Horne) from downtime.

Here’s a graph of the build server’s load for the day yesterday (click for bigger version).

If you’re not familiar with *nix load averages, I’ve added handy labels (click for bigger version).

Posted March 12th, 2008 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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3 Responses to “Poor Mario”


  1. pookzilla Says:

    That doesn’t look like me at all! I rarely, if ever, wear dresses.


  2. Denis Roy Says:

    This is based on a true story… Some events and characters are fictitious.


  3. Chris Aniszczyk (zx) Says:

    thanks for the laugh ;)

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