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A (ESM Geek) Good Joke

By John | June 15, 2007

Question:

What is the difference between a capacity planner and a performance analyst? 

Answer:

The capacity planner ignores outliers and the performance analyst only looks at outliers… 

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2 Responses to “A (ESM Geek) Good Joke”

  1. rodionos Says:
    July 18th, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    Good joke and easy to remember.

    Here is a graphical representation.

    http://www.axibase.com/tivoli/wd/unix_cpu_load_distribution.gif

    The chart displays daily CPU load distribution in a medium-size UNIX environment with about 400 servers.

    Cheers,

    Sergei

  2. jwillis Says:
    July 19th, 2007 at 7:29 am

    Great graph. I am going to add you guys to my links.

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