Re: Re: Found New Hardware   
     By: Daryl Stout to TOM WALKER on Thu Jun 11 2015 10:26 am   
      
      
   I remember back in the day we had a finance person set up the accounting system   
   on "their" servers. "Servers" being underpowered desktops with single ATA   
   drives.   
      
   Somehow, my group inherited this mess of systems, and regular complaints of   
   slowness were the norm. I'd go in the server room, look at the system --   
   everything seemed OK, and the app responded OK.   
      
   Later that day, more complaints of slowness. Look at everything, it all looked   
   OK. Later on, more complaints.   
      
   The culprit? That OpenGL "Pipes" screen saver took just enough CPU power to   
   draw the screen that it slowed down the app. Switching to a plain old blank   
   screen saver fixed the issue.   
      
   Putting it on a real server later made me a hero. It's nice to get credit for   
   cleaning up someone else's mess, doesn't happen often enough.   :)   
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