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I started this almost three years ago now after being exiled from Farcebook for suggesting the clot-shot was neither effective nor safe.

I started friendica initially on an i7-6850k machine clocked at 3.8Ghz. It was a six core 12 thread machine with 128GB of RAM. It proved to be marginally sufficient, at times it will get very behind in the work queue and then later catch up.

I replaced the machine with an i9-10980xe processor clocked at 4.8Ghz, this is an 18 core 36 thread CPU supporting 256GB of RAM. Initially it ran well but after about a month it developed stability issues, finally found it's power supply was ill.

Fixed that, it ran for about a month and then 1/4th of it's memory disappeared. The motherboard had developed a bad memory channel.

Replaced the Asus Prime 390A II motherboard with another similar motherboard, it ran for about a month and then became unstable again.

I replaced it with an AsRock motherboard. The AsRock motherboard was not able to deliver the power required by this CPU and melted the solder at the power connection of the CPU socket.

I then replaced it with a Gigabyte Aorus Master and initially it ran good. Then developed stability problems AGAIN. After much troubleshooting I determined there were two problems, the power supply had again gone south, so this time I replaced the 1KW Gigabyte power supply with a 1200 watt Seasonic supply, so far so good. The other issue we ran into is 6.11 kernels have issue with the TPM RAPL code that cause premature throttling of the CPU. Disabled the TPM in BIOS and it fixed that issue.

Then when we upgrade to 6.11.3 and later stability again problematic, put it back to the 6.11.2 kernel and stable again so we're leaving it on that kernel for now.

This machine is up to the task load wise, CPU occupancy is around 4%, lots of overhead for the occasional traffic spike.

Because I think history is important, we have conversation retention set to 9999 days on this machine. I wish there were an infinite do not delete setting in friendica but for now this is best we can do. Probably by the time 9999 days has elapsed this will have changed.

Anyway, be our 3000 user, Join us at friendica.eskimo.com/