I finished up my dinner, cleaned up my mess in the kitchen (not hard when you use paper plates and plastic utensils). I washed my hands, dried them off, and hung up the towel.
Back in the computer room, the analysis program was still running. It had gotten up to about 138,000 messages, but there were now about 408,000 messages to process.
Now, you might be a bit worried about the number of messages that were coming into the computer. There's a lot of data floating around the Net (well, there used to be), and if I was making duplicates of data packets, that might cause a data storm on the net.
Not to worry, though, I didn't want to pull a "Robert Morris". You might remember him. He was playing around with an email worm, and it got away from him. And he got caught, and served some prison time for his efforts.
One should always learn from one's mistakes. Better yet, let someone else make the mistakes. So the packet-copying program that was sitting out on all those servers had a limiter built in. I could send out a 'start copying' command to the server, and then the program would copy packets until it got to about 10,000 packets, then the program would go to 'sleep' until the next 'start copying' command I sent. Even then, with all the servers I had running the program, I'd get a good supply of packets. And I wouldn't have to worry about 'pulling a Morris'.