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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On September 29, 2010, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 30 September 2010 06:07, Francis J. Lacoste
> 
> <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I like the idea of a fixed downtime budget a lot.
> > 
> > What do we need to make it happen?
> > 
> > My thoughts:
> > 
> >  * A feedback mechanism allowing us to track how much of the budget is
> > spent. * Something like a script that extracts a measure from the
> > staging update? * Once the budget is spent, no more DB changes.
> >  * We probably need a way to input the budget for case where a OS
> > maintenance task will shrink the DB budget.
> 
> It seems like, by saying "no more DB changes", you're anticipating a
> budget that refills only every several months or so. That's a pretty
> interesting idea.  I thought what Robert was saying, though, was a cap
> at 90 minutes on any single outage.

No, I wasn't.

I guess my third item caused confusion. Assuming a 90 minutes downtime budget. 
If we have a HW maintenance task that takes 30 minutes, we only have 60 
minutes for DB changes this month.

Hope this clarifies this.


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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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