I am glad I bought 128gb of ram last year.
I bought 3 kits of ddr5 last January before i realized the approved vendor list actually mattered for this mobo (I’ve never had this happen before). I was too lazy to return them at the time because you can never have too much memory laying around.
Serious question, what does RAM help with in the context of self hosting? I recently bought 32G for my server, and it’s DDR3 ecc so it’s so cheap I could have afforded 64 but I just kept wondering what will I use it for? I rarely go north of 6G usage and that’s with half a dozen services, a Minecraft server etc… I just don’t know what kind of services are RAM hungry.
Probably not a lot.
My system idles at 3gb.
But then I do AI stuff and it needs 15-80gb. And I do data analyses that can use a lot.
Yeah i specifically don’t do any AI workloads on my server, that would be stupid slow with my old ass hardware. But my buddy (who’s a bit impulsive with money) bought two Spark GX10s and we’re likely to get some fun out of them :)
My use case might not be very relatable, but I run a bunch of stuff cached in ramdisk.
One example is if my jellyfin server has to transcode something, I have it use ramdisk instead of my SSD for the transcoding cache.
I see, that’s interesting. I do a lot of transcoding but offline so i don’t have usage for such a cache. I’ve tested various storage solutions but on my setup, transcoding is always CPU-bound, even on old ass HDDs the bottleneck is never I/O.
I do reencode bluray remuxes too, and also then use ramdisk for it.
I’ve just, always had enough ram to do it so I’ve stuck with it. And the ram is probably gonna take the wear better than SSDs do.
I also use it for download cache for some things, smaller things like music and books/manga.
VMs mostly. What are you hosting on Minecraft that isn’t using >=4 gigs?
Also ZFS.
VMs mostly
oh yeah i see how that can be hungry
What are you hosting on Minecraft that isn’t using >=4 gigs?
Just a vanilla server i play on with my son, it’s got 2G and i haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. Chunk gen is slow-ish but i suppose that’s CPU-bound.
BTW i exagerated in my initial comment, i looked at the machine and it’s sitting just under 8G of used RAM.
Also ZFS
Jesus christ 😅 no idea if you’re jesting
I have 1.5tb of ecc ddr4 and don’t know what to do with it. Work decom’d a bunch of servers and I took ram and storage
Use them as a form of currency at this point lol
And here I thought $399 for a 4TB Samsung NVMe 990 Pro was a bit too expensive. Little did I know. I’m so glad my friend talked me into impulse purchasing it last year. What I’m more annoyed about is not picking up HDDs for my NAS last year, I refuse to pay NVMe prices for HDDs.
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to buy a few smaller ones and a PCIe card?
Then you’re losing pcie lanes, and you have to deal with split storage or software raid which doesn’t always work the best.
Yup, and originally I was also aiming to put together a full SSD NAS, so I wanted to use multiple 4TB sticks for that since it was reasonably priced (at the time) for the amount of storage and speed. Alas, now I’m just waiting to see if it’ll ever go back under $400, but I’m not holding my breath.
Same, I wish I’d bought two. Or even one.
I am angry at myself for delaying the purchases of a mini PC about 4 months ago /:
If you buy now you can still brag about missing the next price increase when South Korea runs out of helium for chip production in 2 weeks.
Gee I wonder who else has a lot of tappable helium- ah, right. russia.
Russians aren’t brown skinned people tho. We almost exclusively bomb brown skin people.
We do, but what I mean is this is yet another way Russia will benefit from the pedo-war. Oil goes up, they become a critical supplier of helium, they’ll make shitloads of billions to try and prop their own war machine back up. One big huge giant present to Putin, one dictator to another.
to try and prop their own war machine back up.
I don’t honestly think that Russia couldn’t already afford modern infrastructure and military, as much as I think the government crippled because it’s basically run mafia style where everyone is skimming heavily. on the take. and money being funneled to already wealthy pockets. This sounds vaguely familiar. Even down to people ‘falling’ out of a window from great heights. I get what you are saying tho. Russia is rich in natural resources if they can figure out how to extract a lot of it from the frozen tundra.
They can let other people do the building and extracting, just like oil companies used to do throughout the third world countries in the past century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
The National Helium Reserve, also known as the Federal Helium Reserve, was a strategic reserve of the United States, which once held over 1 billion cubic meters (about 170,000,000 kg)[a] of helium gas.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) transferred the reserve to the General Services Administration (GSA) as surplus property, but a 2022 auction[10] failed to finalize a sale.[11] On June 22, 2023, the GSA announced a new auction of the facilities and remaining helium.[12] The auction of the last helium assets was due to take place in November, 2023.[13] Though the last of the Cliffside reserve was to be sold by November 2023, more natural gas was discovered at the site than was previously known, and the Bureau of Land Management extended the auction to January 25, 2024 to allow for increased bids.[14] In 2024 the remaining reserve was sold to the highest bidder, Messer Group.[15]
Arguably not the best timing on that.
Me too, I was waiting for a good deal in a GMKtec EVO-X2, but that is not going to happen.
What makes this worse is that git servers are the most pathologically vulnerable to the onslaught of doom from modern internet scrapers because remember, they click on every link on every page.
The especially disappointing thing is that, for the specific case that Xe was running into, a better-written scraper could just recognize that this is a public git repository and just git clone the thing and get all the useful code without the overhead. Like, it’s not even “this scraper is scraping data that I don’t want it to have”, but “this scraper is too dumb to just scrape the thing efficiently and is blowing both the scraper’s resources and the server’s resources downloading innumerable redundant copies of the data”.
It’s probably just as well, since the protection is relevant for other websites, and he probably wouldn’t have done it if he hadn’t been getting his git repo hammered, but…
EDIT: Plus, I bet that the scraper was requesting a ton of files at once from the server, since he said that it was unusable. Like, you have a zillion servers to parallelize requests over. You could write a scraper that requested one file at once per server, which is common courtesy, and you’re still going to be bandwidth constrained if you’re schlorping up the whole Internet. Xe probably wouldn’t have even noticed.
Sorta like how people complain about bots scraping Lemmy, even though federation already exists as a standardized protocol for distributing data. Like any scraper who wanted to efficiently scrape Lemmy would just spin up their own instance and let federation do the scraping for them. It would even have the added benefit that they could set their server to ignore delete requests, so deleted posts/comments wouldn’t get automatically removed from their server. And then they could scrape as much as they wanted without impacting anyone else.
But they don’t want to do that, because it would require the smallest modicum of forethought. They don’t care that scrapers are trashing the Internet and causing massive bandwidth issues for hosters. They just want the data, and they want it now. All of those “bots are flooding my server and eating all my bandwidth, so legitimate users can’t actually access the site” complaints are for other people.
Remember that if you get an idea, fuck around, find out, and write down what you’ve learned: you’ve literally just done science. Well, with computers, so it’d be computer science, but you get my point.
Honestly it’s never been easier to start doing things, and doing things is very fun. Good advice!
Also, how is the author using 1password for credentials on server? They have service accounts now, but is there a better way than just always providing a credential when asked?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters Git Popular version control system, primarily for code NAS Network-Attached Storage NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express SSD Solid State Drive mass storage ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.
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looks at slides
I see where the anime catgirl logo that Anubis uses came from.
Xe Iaso my beloved
For those who don’t know, she created Anubis, but she was already writing cool articles before that, definitely recommend add her to your RSS Reader!
I’m sorry, but this was too difficult to read, the author is kinda cringe.
“Please laugh”
Meant to be a watched talk though, not an article – some of the original tone is prpbably missing in the transcript.
