friendica.eskimo.com

Friendica.Eskimo.Com

Friendica.Eskimo.Com was getting to be a bit slow. Did some analysis of redis and mariadb configuration and found some places to improve performance and it seemed to have a pretty significant impact upon responsiveness.

Still trying to get images to display automagically in misskey, if anyone knows the magic juju please let me know.

Shoreline, WA, USA
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Look for a PM about Friendica, sir.
We had hardware problems before and it took four motherboards to finally get one that completely worked. We had originally gone with a Thermaltake 1000 watt power supply. It became unstable so we replaced it with a Gigabyte supply. Then we had motherboard issues. We started with an Asus board, one of the four memory channels died so not all of the system memory was visible to the CPU. We replaced it with a second and it just up and died. We ordered a Gigabyte board but it would not post with this cpu, so then an Asrock, the Asrock board could not handle the power requirements of this particular CPU and melted the solder connection of the power at the CPU socket after 18 hours of operation. Then we learned that the issue with the Gigabyte board was the BIOS, so we upgraded the BIOS and then it mostly worked. Then the Gigabyte power supply got ill, so we replaced with a Seasonic 1200 watt power supply. There is still an issue with the RAPL code in the kernel and if the CPU is allowed to get hot enough to where the kernel tries to downclock to cool it, it can lock up. So at this point we have the hardware issue resolved, but there is still some stability issue in the kernel. This however will only cause a short outage for us to drive to the co-lo and boot it rather than the long and right now it tends to go several weeks between crashes. Of course we would like it not to crash at all. But I believe the hardware issues are resolved at this point. The Gigabyte board appears to be capable of providing the power this CPU requires (as much as 540 watts with all 18 cores and 36 threads fully occupied at 4.8Ghz) and the Seasonic 1200 watt power supply appears up to the task and we know there is still active development of the RAPL code in the kernel for this CPU so hopefully this will get fixed. I am also putting together another machine with similar architecture that should be capable of acting as a backup in the event of another lengthy failure. So while life offers no guarantees, I believe we have it better stabilized.
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I might add, how much and how fast I can get things done are largely a factor of funding. If you subscribe to some of our paid services such as web hosting, virtual private servers, e-mail, shell accounts, then we can do more things with the free services.

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