On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:30:33AM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Paul Graydon" <p...@paulgraydon.co.uk> > > > Anecdotally, I had an interview years ago for a small-ish futures > > trading company based in London. The interviewer had to pause the > > interview part way through whilst he investigated a 10ms latency spike > > that the traders were noticing on a short point-to-point fiber link to > > the London Stock Exchange. He commented that the traders were far > > better at 'feeling' when an connection was showing even a trace of lag > > compared to normal than anything he'd set up by way of monitoring (not > > sure how good his monitoring was, though.) > > This was my experience in a callcenter as well; network type problem reports > always came in from the floor managers before Nagios came forth with an > opinion.
When I used to run an ISP network, our NOC always talked about "that porn guy" who would call the *exact* *momment* the NNTP server had any type of stutter... I guess there's always a canary for the coal mine -- eh?
