Monthly Archives: December 2005

Dreamhost Thinks I Use Too Much CPU

Posted on December 1, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Ominous email:

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Unfortunately it appears that your site is using more than your fair share of system resources on your shared hosting machine dawber. Our system has flagged your account because it is using a large number of CPU minutes per day on dawber. We need you to trim down your resource consumption considerably. Should you ignore this or subsequent warnings your account may be moved to an evaluation server which could cause downtime.

Specifically amf’s CPU minute usage for today is 56.70.

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Office Follies

Posted on December 1, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

At UM, visiting professors sometimes remark on the climate’s effect on student clothing styles, which tend more towards the skimpy than is found in places where the outdoor temperature routinely dips below 75 degrees Fahrenheit. (Today’s lovely and cool temperatures in the mid-60s won’t last.)

That said, we haven’t — as far as I know — ever had to contend with stuff like this incident at UC Irvine: Acephalous: My Morning: A Play in One Uncomfortable Act. (Don’t miss the third comment. He’s in for a disappointment.)

(Spotted via John Holbo at John & Belle have a blog.)

Update: It has been brought to my attention that the Irvine Incident was in the Humanities. I, of course, don’t have the faintest clue what goes on in the Humanities departments here at UM or anywhere else…

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