[25574] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.28: matlab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Sun Apr 4 14:42:13 2004
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To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[25572] in Athena Bugs"
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Apr 2004 14:31:50 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 14:41:46 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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>This issue of having the slw wrapper interfere with actual users is
>pretty worrysome to me, from a policy perspective.
It's a management decision that it's important to get usage statistics
from the wrapper logs.
>[but it's impressive that it hasn't come up before!]
Indeed- which certainly mitigates the inconvenience to users.
>One quick slightly mitigating option would be to frob the matlab
>wrapper to explain the situation to users, so they don't simply give
>up and conclude matlab is broken. I would recommend doing this.
Yes- I'll probably do that next week sometime.
Alex
