RE: Misinformation Ranting

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 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

> -----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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