Or, if you are paranoid, this is an effort by the customer to determine if the vendor has both the technical knowledge and the integrity to come back with a response to the effect "This is a meaningless issue and we don't want to waste your money dealing with it."
-----Original Message----- From: Rick Fochtman [mailto:snip] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MIPS /day --------------------------------<snip>----------------------------- MIPS topic again: One of our customer has reported that our (long runing) server application is using 500 MIPS /day.How to understand this, and is there any standard tool to generate a report like this(i.e how many MIPS has used ) --------------------------------<unsnip>----------------------------- Your customer doesn't know s**t from shoe polish. MIPS (Misleading Indicators of Performance Specifications) is a RATE measurement, NOT a total usage value. His concern should be focused on one far more important issue: "Are my business needs being satisfied?". If so, then be quiet; if not, then it's time to address application performance issues, or perhaps overall system performance issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
