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A Second Life
Nothing beats the feeling of opening a box of shiny new tech. Well, peeling the plastic off that piece of shiny new tech beats the pants off opening the box, but given that you have to open the box and witness the peelable plastic first, I’ll defer to the box opening as the best feeling.…
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IoT is a Gateway Drug
I was fiddling around in my homelab this weekend and finally decided to write this down as the thoughts have been kicking around for a while. Years ago, when the term “Internet of Things” came to be, I thought it was pretty stupid … and let’s face it, in hindsight, it is a pretty stupid…
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Is it nostalgia after only six years?
I’ve played video games for a long time. Not that I’m setting any records or anything, but the first games I ever played were on Atari 2600 and Intellivision. The Atari was destroyed in late 1986 for certain aquatic reasons, and the Intellivision was my cousin’s while we lived in their basement for a while.…
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Hunt is over for now
Server’s been up and running happily since the last post. So, it was the enormous VM data volume that was causing the problem. A different hunt has ended as well (for now, of course), completely unrelated to Proxmox: the hunt for a decent camera. Like most people these days I’ve been recording videos on my…
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Almost had it
Turns out it wasn’t actually some weird LXC-related permissions thing, which is a bit of a bummer, but it was most definitely file system-related. My Plex server’s data volume was a single monolithic 12TB volume, and when I did anything that caused significant I/O, that resulted in high load for some reason. I split my…
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Minor Stability
My home server has been running steadily for the past 10 days without any issues … is what I’d say if replacing the RAM with ECC modules fixed 100% of the problems I was encountering. The majority of the problems were indeed fixed, but I encountered some new ones now that I didn’t have to…
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The Itch
In one of my previous posts I described my main machine. It’s the best workstation I’ve ever built for myself, providing the best of all possible worlds: it’s quiet under normal utilization, decently quick during video encodes, provides great gaming performance, and runs anything I can throw at it. What’s unique about this machine is…
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So far, so good
The ECC memory has been stable for 24 hours. That’s a good sign, but I’m not going to count my chickens just yet. Most interesting aspect of this is that the RAM is running at 2666, rather than 3200, so now I’m curious how the non-ECC modules perform at slower speeds. I’m working on another…
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Well that was quick
The replacement RAM arrived today and I remembered one of the reasons I didn’t particularly enjoy building the server in the case I chose, but ultimately I did replace the modules, so the server’s now running on 128GB of ECC memory. The previous 32GB modules are sitting in their packages, and I plan on testing…
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Minor Instability
For the first time in … well, ever, I’m running into some instability with my home lab. There are two major differences between my current platform and the previous ones: it’s running an AMD processor, and the RAM is non-ECC. I know the processor isn’t the problem because I pulled it from my own machine,…