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I might just do that
Yeah, good point. The servers use SATA SSDs AFAIK and disk I/O is already pretty good. Actually, I came to BuyVM from OVH and one of the first things I noticed was just how fast disk I/O was.
2X is a huge improvement over SATA and my VM isn't anywhere close to being disk I/O starved so I doubt it'll be much of an issue. At least for me as a customer and my use case.
You should setup a news letter that goes out every day on the 1st and the 7th.
It's a neat site, guy must be making a killing in affiliates.
Still delayed on customs
Francisco
US or Chinese customs? I've seen some sketchy tracking on stuff ordered from China. They might be extra dickish at the moment for stuff shipping to the US.
USA.
I had to fill out some form to mark us as an importer which is...new. I'm guessing the seller marked it as a commercial sale.
It's listed as being in the States, Fedex confirmed as much. Paper work has been sent off, just waiting on CPB at this point. I have 7 heatsinks in hand that I was able to source before World War Z started, so I'll likely go in the morning and rack some nodes up. Was busy doing some shuffling around of users to make the migrations less painful.
Francisco
Oof
Yeah, now's not a great time to be trying to ship stuff. Also, didn't the US/CA boarder close for all non-essential travel? Not sure how that'd affect you getting everything down to LV and setting it up. Also, plains aren't where you want to be right now. Stay safe, Fran.
Any chance I could be on one of those nodes tomorrow?
Haha I'm first
No me
Any New News
Is it possible to boot a VPS from a slab? Basically, how hard is it to put everything on the slab portion? If the VPS is not booted from the volume, then anything I run that uses a lot of space would have to be installed on the volume, which is more work I assume. Is there a recommended way to install things on the volume portion to not exhaust the smaller boot hard drive of a VM?
Telco and data processing is considered essential and key work.
Yeah, that doesn't put you at any less risk, though. I'm more concerned about Fran's well-being than Ryzen.
I don't see why not. IIRC the Ubuntu installer had an option to install it on the slab. I wouldn't recommend it though. There are much better ways of doing that. You can just have big stuff on other places. For example, you could have /home on the slab but the rest of the OS on local SSD. Not too long ago I moved postgres onto a slab and setup an LVM writeback cache for it so performance is close to what it would be if the whole thing were on SSD.
So yeah, you could do that but I'd really recommend against doing it as performance would suffer greatly.
I’m sure @Francisco wouldn’t put himself under any undue risks.
It's for that tax bill at the end of the year
Yeah, I know. Still worry about him though.
Ah I'm good, I don't go out to any other places much anyway. The DC only has a couple workers at it and basically no customers come in.
We got all the Ryzen's we can online, Anthony's busy migrating customers over. Working as quick as the infiniband allows!
More Slabs were also added this morning.
Francisco
Awesome! You're the real MVP: upgraded servers in the middle of World War Z.
I need to work out a plan for my migration. There's some stuff I'm gonna need to recompile and whatnot.
Got my Ryzen 3900X up and running!
Would wish some email notifications beforehand. One of the slab didn't boot up after migration and ended up 8 hours of downtime before I wake up.
CPU model : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 3792.870 MHz
Total size of Disk : 9.3 GB (2.8 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 492 MB (120 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 509 MB (14 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 3 hour 43 min
Load average : 0.11, 0.15, 0.28
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 9
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.9.0-12-amd64
I/O speed(1st run) : 991 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 979 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 966 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 978.7 MB/s
Gettin' there
You can try
oflag=direct
and your IO should be even better.Francisco
okay, how to get ryzen?
https://buyvm.net
which one? there're only E3 KVM
Las Vegas at the moment. Other are still E3
I'll rename the Vegas products later today
Francisco
Will NY get the "Ryzen" treatment? :-)
Can you do a geekbench 4 test so we can compare with others.