In architecture, your portfolio is rarely a physical, leather-bound book handed across a crit table anymore. Today, it is a PDF — a silent ambassador that travels through applicant tracking systems, loads on a partner’s laptop during a Zoom interview, or gets thumbed through on an iPad in a studio critique.

Your architecture portfolio PDF is not a container for images. It is a where the user’s tool is the scroll wheel and the spacebar. Respect that interaction, and your work will finally get the full minute of attention it deserves. One last tip before you export: Open your final PDF on a stranger’s laptop. Turn off the lights to mimic a presentation. Click through it three times. If you feel bored or lost, redesign. If you feel curious and clear, send it.

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  1. Architecture Portfolio | Pdf

    In architecture, your portfolio is rarely a physical, leather-bound book handed across a crit table anymore. Today, it is a PDF — a silent ambassador that travels through applicant tracking systems, loads on a partner’s laptop during a Zoom interview, or gets thumbed through on an iPad in a studio critique.

    Your architecture portfolio PDF is not a container for images. It is a where the user’s tool is the scroll wheel and the spacebar. Respect that interaction, and your work will finally get the full minute of attention it deserves. One last tip before you export: Open your final PDF on a stranger’s laptop. Turn off the lights to mimic a presentation. Click through it three times. If you feel bored or lost, redesign. If you feel curious and clear, send it. architecture portfolio pdf

    • This could have to do with the pathing policy as well. The default SATP rule is likely going to be using MRU (most recently used) pathing policy for new devices, which only uses one of the available paths. Ideally they would be using Round Robin, which has an IOPs limit setting. That setting is 1000 by default I believe (would need to double check that), meaning that it sends 1000 IOPs down path 1, then 1000 IOPs down path 2, etc. That’s why the pathing policy could be at play.

      To your question, having one path down is causing this logging to occur. Yes, it’s total possible if that path that went down is using MRU or RR with an IOPs limit of 1000, that when it goes down you’ll hit that 16 second HB timeout before nmp switches over to the next path.

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