Fediverse is great, I can post stuff here now as it's down. xD
Edit: damn, they're already back up this quick
Here was the archive: https://archive.ph/RAZ5Q
lemmy.world down...
Fediverse is great, I can post stuff here now as it's down. xD
Edit: damn, they're already back up this quick
Here was the archive: https://archive.ph/RAZ5Q
50 Comments
probable_possum@leminal.space · 66 pts · 250d
Faulty memory modules are rare. At least in my life.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 250d
I had BOTH of my memory modules die simultaneously in my first beefy computer I built. I was very lucky that OCZ had a lifetime warranty—they didn’t even ask for the memtest results, they just sent me two new sticks.
Then both of my (SLI) video cards died… those too were in warranty, but I began to wonder if my computer was cursed.
darkreader2636@lemmy.zip · 51 pts · 250d
Bad psu checks out
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 250d
Yknow that’s what I thought! But after replacing memory and GPU, everything worked great for a year or two until I sold it! I did bring it into my work (I used to work computer repair) and used the shop’s PSU tester which passed it…. I think it was just a fluke! I do know the cards I bought (2 x 7900GT) had a bit of a notoriety for failing, but I do not think the RAM had the same issue.
fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net · 10 pts · 250d
If it wasn’t the PSU or motherboard, then it’s possible they were both just from a bad batch
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 250d
The friend I sold it to used the PSU and mobo for another couple years before upgrading, so I think you’re right! Just bad luck on my part hahaha. Thank goodness for good RMA policies!
Justifier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
Dirty electricity is also a possibility
Brownouts, surges, lots of electrical stuff can absolutely crap on newer electronics
I keep my PCs behind a whole home surge protector, on an isobar, and through a sinewave UPS
bonenode@piefed.social · 12 pts · 250d
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 250d
more common when dealing with servers. they just have to work harder
tempest@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 250d
It's still not that common to have one die. Servers have ECC memory which can get you by longer even as a DIMM starts to die. It's also rarely run at speeds consumer RAM is run at.
The thing with server memory is when you get to point where you have hundreds of servers and each one has 12 to 24 DIMMs the chance you have a bad one somewhere increases.
dan@upvote.au · 5 pts · 250d
Some servers have ECC. If you get a cheap one (like a Hetzner auction server), it's less likely to have ECC. ECC protects against bitflips, but it won't help if the RAM is starting to die. ECC isn't magic - it just has an extra 8 bits of parity data per 64 bits of data. It still uses the same type of RAM chips.
tempest@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 249d
It isn't magic but RAM doesn't tend to just stop working. You'll start getting reported error correction events on a bad dim before it might fail which usually means it's replacement time.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 250d
nah for sure, but i'd give a bet ruud was running on consumer hardware which has far less fault tolerance built in
Egonallanon@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 250d
At least anecdotally I find them to be the third most common thing to fail after storage drives and fans. Though yeah still super rare.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 250d
Power supplies and batteries, if we’re including laptops.
sobchak@programming.dev · 4 pts · 250d
Never had one fail. Bought a faulty one once. Took me months to figure out why I was having data corruption issues. Thought it was one of the old HDDs I was using in a ZRAID array, so I would swap one out and try again until I'd eventually get a corruption error again. Finally found the issue after about 10 minutes of running a memory test of a bootable USB.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 250d
Am I the only one using memtest after every time I handle RAM?
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
That's probably a good thing to do, yeah. 👍 Thing with me is, I probably handle my RAM just as often as they fail, which would be never also.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 1 pts · 250d
happened to my laptop q couple of years ago and my stationary just this summer :|
db2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
A far as you can remember anyway.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 56 pts · 250d
They'll probably have to claim to be working on AI to get someone to sell them new ram.
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 250d
more like download more ram
MiDaBa@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 250d
Back in my day you could get an app that doubled your RAM. No memory modules required.
QuestionMark@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
Ramdisk?
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
QEMM?
joenforcer@midwest.social · 3 pts · 250d
You could mount a cloud storage device as a pagefile, which would be a convoluted way to "download more RAM"!
Yes, there are some significant technical hurdles to jump through and it'd be impossibly slow, but it can be done!
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 250d
do i have to use a physical device, and if NOT ram sticks or cloud storage devices, what should i use?
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 250d
On Windows, download the google drive program and set it to a drive letter. Then once setup, create a pagefile on the drive. It's memory as fast as your internet connection.
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 250d
how much memory would that add? i have at least 32GB of ram on my pc. seriously!
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 249d
I don't really know if it works or does something.
I wouldn't count on it beyond the novelty.
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 249d
It definitely can be done for real, but it will be soooooo slow if the os decides to use that memory.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 16 pts · 250d
.world has on-"prem" servers? Noice
Blaze@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 250d
Maybe it changed, but IIRC they are using Hetzner
https://lemmy.world/comment/65982
Their infrastructure expenses seem to also suggest VPS
https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld/transactions?kind=EXPENSE
Dave@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 250d
I am under the impression it's dedicated hardware not a VPS, but it's leased from Hetzner they don't maintain the hardware themselves.
Blaze@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 250d
Ah, could be!
tempest@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 250d
So does .CA
It's one of the advantages of the being a lot of sys admins and Linux users in this community.
You can run Lemmy pretty comfortably on used servers.
dan@upvote.au · 3 pts · 250d
I'm running mine on a ~$33/year VPS at GreenCloudVPS. It's a small instance (just me) but it federates with all the major instances which means it still does a bunch of work (since it has to handle incoming posts and comments from federated servers). It's a decently powerful VPS with an AMD EPYC Milan CPU, 10GB RAM, and 100GB NVMe storage.
For a medium-sized instance, I imagine you could get pretty far with a single <$100/month dedicated server from Hetzner or a similar provider.
Blaze@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 250d
That seems quite cheap, was it a discount? I can't find a 33$ yearly plan on their website
dan@upvote.au · 1 pts · 249d
Yeah, a Black Friday sale.
They do have some deals always available, but the specs aren't as good as the Black Friday ones: https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale
RackNerd also have some deals that are always available on their site. .
Blaze@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 249d
Oh, that's still very cool, thanks!
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 250d
Oh shit, awful timing, what with the pricing recently :(
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 250d
When it rains, it pours
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 9 pts · 250d
I switched from lemmy.world to fedia.io because I like mbin's interface a little better than lemmy: The fediverse is pretty great!
dan@upvote.au · 3 pts · 250d
If you want to try alternate UIs, you might be interested in trying Photon and Alexandrite.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 1 pts · 250d
I've tried a few variants out and they all have their own benefits and drawbacks, but I kinda settled on Mbin with Interstellar on mobile (though the website works fine in Firefox mobile too).
fascicle@leminal.space · 5 pts · 250d
You are now banned from Lemmy.worldTacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 250d
oh no. what are all the pro-genocide astroturf bots gonna do now?!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 249d
coming to other lemmy instances. they tried it the "You sound like a 1939s nazi"(paraphrase) when referring to russian backed propaganda as a reason for a certain candidates loss" just the other day, instantly blocked that account.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 248d
They don't do well on the better moderated instances, thankfully.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
RIP lemmy.world
mvirts@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
Time for GRUB_BADRAM