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One of my more frustrating days at work. I spent most of the day tracking down a performance problem; once we worked out what we thought it was the fix seemed reasonably clear - but it doesn't seem to work in practice. So did I get the fix wrong, did we reach the wrong conclusion about the problem, or is the underlying OS broken in this area? And some extra work has appeared at short notice and with a rather short deadline.

Went swimming after work, the remains of my cold are still curtailing that activity somewhat though.