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Double Congrats To @raindog308!!

Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider
edited August 2025 in News

Hey Guys!

@raindog308 has not one but two Low End Box articles up on Hacker News!! :star: :star:

Wow!

A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it

The Synology End Game

Double Congrats to @raindog308!!

Comments

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    I only noted the Synology article, but I join you and was smiling when seeing "our" raindog on HN.

    Congrats, @raindog308 ! :)

  • zedzed Member

    amusingly i didn't even notice it was an leb link, i read the comments first and depending on the discussion i may go back and check the link. raindog getting a raise for the traffic bump?!

  • emghemgh Member, Megathread Squad

    Swap on servers somewhat defeats the purpose of ECC memory: your program state is now subject to complex IO path that is not end-to-end checksum protected. Also you get unpredictable performance.
    So typically: swap off on servers. Do they have a server story?

    honestly top tier take

  • jbilohjbiloh Administrator, Veteran

    Love to see it. Way to go @raindog308

  • APIAPI Member

    Congratulations @raindog308, great articles. You made me check LEB for the first time in quite a while!

    Thanked by 2ehab oloke
  • Excellent work, @raindog308!

  • congrats @raindog308 ! time to celebrate

  • @Not_Oles said:
    Hey Guys!

    @raindog308 has not one but two Low End Box articles up on Hacker News!! :star: :star:

    Wow!

    A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it

    The Synology End Game

    Double Congrats to @raindog308!!

    That's great! Quiet helpful and congrats!

  • cool, i always say that in let I even can learn something new except vps offers.

  • How much traffic did hn sent?

  • Congratulations on the articles!

  • Someone give @raindog308 a raise!

  • @emgh said:

    Swap on servers somewhat defeats the purpose of ECC memory: your program state is now subject to complex IO path that is not end-to-end checksum protected. Also you get unpredictable performance.
    So typically: swap off on servers. Do they have a server story?

    honestly top tier take

    ECC is done in hardware, no convoluted IO path.

    Swap is used in the case where all RAM is used. Turning it off means crashing, which is fucking silly for a server. ECC is for memory error correction, not disk. It makes no difference to swap.

    So I have no idea what value that statement has. Turning off swap on servers has very small use cases for which knowledgeable admin would manage.

  • emghemgh Member, Megathread Squad
    edited September 2025

    @TimboJones said:

    @emgh said:

    Swap on servers somewhat defeats the purpose of ECC memory: your program state is now subject to complex IO path that is not end-to-end checksum protected. Also you get unpredictable performance.
    So typically: swap off on servers. Do they have a server story?

    honestly top tier take

    Swap is used in the case where all RAM is used.

    Clueless and so exteremely confident in the take. That’s @TimboJones for y’all.

    ECC is for memory error correction, not disk. It makes no difference to swap.

    This was exactly the point. You’re so eager to disagree you forget to think.

    Turning off swap on servers has very small use cases for which knowledgeable admin would manage.

    In that case I’d recommend you to keep swap on.

  • philipjensenphilipjensen Member, Patron Provider

    Congrats @raindog308 and great article!

  • DediRockDediRock Member, Patron Provider

    That is great news, awesome!

  • @emgh said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @emgh said:

    Swap on servers somewhat defeats the purpose of ECC memory: your program state is now subject to complex IO path that is not end-to-end checksum protected. Also you get unpredictable performance.
    So typically: swap off on servers. Do they have a server story?

    honestly top tier take

    Swap is used in the case where all RAM is used.

    Clueless and so exteremely confident in the take. That’s @TimboJones for y’all.

    ECC is for memory error correction, not disk. It makes no difference to swap.

    This was exactly the point. You’re so eager to disagree you forget to think.

    Turning off swap on servers has very small use cases for which knowledgeable admin would manage.

    In that case I’d recommend you to keep swap on.

    I'm confidently stating I don't understand the point made and you did nothing to illuminate why turning off ECC is any way is beneficial for swap. I disagreed IO was complex and ECC is done in hardware.

    Wtf was your point replying if not to clarify what the benefits are?

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