RE: Misinformation Ranting

How do you set _spin_count for the new infinite improbability driven disks? Do you have to have your towel always with you?

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> From: Fink, Dan [mailto:Dan.Fink_at_mdx.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 1:18 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Misinformation Ranting
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>
> So, if we set _spin_count to a negative number, does this
> force the disks to
> spin backwards? This way you could reverse all the
> transactions that are on
> the disk!
>
> -dwf
>
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> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:33 AM
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>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Gorman [mailto:Tim_at_SageLogix.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 12:23 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Re: Misinformation Ranting
> >
> >
> > Bad as your experience is, be grateful you weren't confronted
> > with this
> > beauty in the one-world of JD Edwards:
> >
> > >> At XXXXXXXX they're having wonderful problems. But what
> > >> really started this is a detail from their
> recommendations that you
> > >> missed last year: in there they suggest that you count
> the number
> > >> of disk drives in your system and multiply by the rpm count. The
> > >> result should then be used to set "_spin_count". So if you have 5
> > >> disks and they do 10000 rpm (each :) ), then "_spin_count" should
> > >> be set to 50000
> >
> > The mind reels...
> >
> > ...after all, what else could a parameter named
> "_spin_count" possibly
> > represent? :-)
>
> We all know that _spin_count actually represents number of
> seconds that
> the world needs to spin around. That number is, as you know, highly
> volatile. The world has spun much faster when I read your piece about
> disks, rpms and _spin_count.
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