Actually I was going to unveil another project that day. I've been excitedly working on this idea since I had the epiphany last night. So, I was checking our logs over the weekend and noticed that no jobs or processes ran between 2 and 3 AM early Sunday morning. I thought it was a fluke of our system, but I started poking around in unrelated logs and I found the same thing. I even looked at a couple of public systems and saw the same thing. Now I don't know why this is but apparently NO Unix systems (and I think maybe Windows too) ran any processes during that window. Is it some bug in the OS? Maybe, but I can exploit it.
So I've designed a once-a-year data processing system. It's going to queue up all your requests throughout the year and save them for this "quiet window" and then distribute all the jobs across all network connected computers running this new code. I think I'll make a pull request to Linux for maximum coverage. The best thing is, there is absolutely no performance hit or impact on everyone's servers because they're ALREADY not being used.
So I've designed a once-a-year data processing system. It's going to queue up all your requests throughout the year and save them for this "quiet window" and then distribute all the jobs across all network connected computers running this new code. I think I'll make a pull request to Linux for maximum coverage. The best thing is, there is absolutely no performance hit or impact on everyone's servers because they're ALREADY not being used.