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From: Dick Balaska
Subject: new toy
Date: 6 Dec 2021 20:51:23
Message: <61aebe1b$1@news.povray.org>
I got me a new-to-me toy for $1000.  It's a dual 6 core Xeon. But what 
really appealed to me was
MiB Mem : 128844.0 total, 121162.3 free,   5763.2 used,   1918.5 buff
MiB Swap:   8192.0 total,   8192.0 free,      0.0 used. 122121.8 avail

     PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ 
COMMAND
    1479 minecra+  20   0   11.3g   4.9g  29444 S   7.6   3.9 459:17.72 
java -Xms4096M -Xmx4096M -jar /opt/msm/servers/+

128GB memory. :) It's pretty wild that I can give 4GB to minecraft and 
that's only 3.9% of the memory.  I think the 8GB swap space looks almost 
silly by comparison.

I use a Pi for my firewall and it's not able to keep up. I get 10Mb/s 
through it, but the boxes on the other side of my firewall are nearing 
100Mb/s.  So I was going to replace my linux server with the new box and 
repurpose the old server as my firewall. But the day the new box 
arrived, the old one died. I guess she was jealous.

dik


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From: Ton
Subject: Re: new toy
Date: 8 Dec 2021 17:50:00
Message: <web.61b135cbcec676eb870605757597fb06@news.povray.org>
Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:
> I got me a new-to-me toy for $1000.  It's a dual 6 core Xeon. But what
> really appealed to me was
> MiB Mem : 128844.0 total, 121162.3 free,   5763.2 used,   1918.5 buff
> MiB Swap:   8192.0 total,   8192.0 free,      0.0 used. 122121.8 avail
>
>      PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+
> COMMAND
>     1479 minecra+  20   0   11.3g   4.9g  29444 S   7.6   3.9 459:17.72
> java -Xms4096M -Xmx4096M -jar /opt/msm/servers/+
>
> 128GB memory. :) It's pretty wild that I can give 4GB to minecraft and
> that's only 3.9% of the memory.  I think the 8GB swap space looks almost
> silly by comparison.
>
> I use a Pi for my firewall and it's not able to keep up. I get 10Mb/s
> through it, but the boxes on the other side of my firewall are nearing
> 100Mb/s.  So I was going to replace my linux server with the new box and
> repurpose the old server as my firewall. But the day the new box
> arrived, the old one died. I guess she was jealous.
>
> dik

I think I have to talk to my financial director, aka wife.....


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From: Kenneth
Subject: Re: new toy
Date: 9 Dec 2021 06:45:00
Message: <web.61b1eba6cec676eb4cef624e6e066e29@news.povray.org>
Congratulations!

128MB ram!  **sigh**

> But the day the new box
> arrived, the old one died. I guess she was jealous.
>

Naturally, ha! The old computer has a proximity detector; it sensed the new box
and quietly bowed to the superior machine. Ah, the wonders of modern technology.

I call that "just-in-time computing" :-P


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From: Alessio Sangalli
Subject: Re: new toy
Date: 13 Dec 2021 14:09:22
Message: <61b79a62$1@news.povray.org>
On 06-Dec-21 17:51, Dick Balaska wrote:

> that's only 3.9% of the memory.  I think the 8GB swap space looks almost 
> silly by comparison.

Why would you have a swap space on that machine, or on any modern 
machine. I haven't created swap partitions (or files) on any decent 
machine since the early 2000's.


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: new toy
Date: 13 Dec 2021 15:40:15
Message: <pan$e531a$ada12d69$155b2b98$227e56fe@nospam.com>
On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:09:22 -0800, Alessio Sangalli wrote:

> Why would you have a swap space on that machine, or on any modern
> machine.
> I haven't created swap partitions (or files) on any decent machine since
> the early 2000's.

Suspend to disk requires it.



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: new toy
Date: 13 Dec 2021 15:41:25
Message: <pan$a7ac9$e8dc9156$30c43016$89eae017@nospam.com>
On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:40:15 -0500, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:09:22 -0800, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> 
>> Why would you have a swap space on that machine, or on any modern
>> machine.
>> I haven't created swap partitions (or files) on any decent machine
>> since the early 2000's.
> 
> Suspend to disk requires it.

(Granted, 8 GB swap on a 128 GB system won't work for that.....I'm just 
stating that that's a reason to create a swap partition)



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw


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