One of our server rooms where we keep computer equipment had a climate control failure. The temperature was dropping fast. It was down to 26 degrees Fahrenheit. Time was short, the servers were about ready to crash. Monitoring alarms were buzzing everywhere. Maintenance was rushing to fix the climate control mechanism, but time wasn't on our side. Thinking fast, i wrote a script that adds random numbers to each other, pushing the processors of the servers up to 25% utilization per processor thread. I instantiated multiple instances of the script thereby creating a 75% increase in electrical consumption in each machine. The temperature probes start to slowly climb out of the red "critical" zone. Another disaster was adverted by the highly resourceful technical group at Michael Foods, Inc.
The life of a computer systems administrator.
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