And the tap drips, drip drip drip drip drip

[venta]

Aargh. This afternoon I have been staring at a little spinny egg-timer.

I don't mean I've been waiting for something to happen, and doing other stuff while the timer spins.

I mean my actual job has involved me watching a little spinny egg-timer. Carefully. All afternoon.

(Mostly I'm hoping to catch it glitching, so I can immediately leap on it and investigate the logs to see why it did that. However, in the usual manner it seems that adding logging has changed a hard-to-reproduce bug into an impossible-to-reproduce bug. Bother.)

Comments

10:15 on a Saturday night

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Well, there's your answer then; add logging and the glitch will go away without you needing to understand it!
(Except obviously if you're not _watching_ the logging, it will reoccur at random...)

[venta.livejournal.com]

One kudo to you :)

And yes, it's the perfect solution - anyone *using* this software is bound to understand that a huge text file that grows at around 150 lines per second and rapidly fills up their entire storage is just a necessary evil :)