[Gllug] Diagnosing hardware faults

Andrew Farnsworth farnsaw at stonedoor.com
Wed Dec 1 18:40:44 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:45 PM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 1 December 2010 13:52, tid <td at bloogaloo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > heh. Nice one. Had a similar test with memory errors when running distcc
> in
> > the past. Out of a farm of 20 identical Dell 1850s, two would routinely
> fail
> > when running a distributed build. It took a plethora* of Dell Engineers
> > to eventually diagnose the problem.
>
> We definitely need a collective noun for this!
> Plethora is good!. How about a murmur of filed engineers?


Murmur sounds cool, but what exactly are "filed" engineers?  :-)

Andy
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