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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high?English
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    4 months ago

    Load average of 400???

    You could install systat (or similar) and use output from sar to watch for thresholds and reboot if exceeded.

    The upside of doing this is you may also be able to narrow down what is going on, exactly, when this happens, since sar records stats for CPU, memory, disk etc. So you can go back after the fact and you might be able to see if it is just a CPU thing or more than that. (Unless the problem happens instantly rather than gradually increasing).

    PS: rather than using cron, you could run a script as a daemon that runs sar at 1 sec intervals.

    Another thought is some kind of external watchdog. Curl webpage on server, if delay too long power cycle with smart home outlet? Idk. Just throwing crazy ideas out there.

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•[Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.English
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    4 months ago

    Not op. I installed windows 10 on my custom built desktop and my kids custom built desktop, on VM, etc. Have not had a problem and it was pretty simple overall. I’m sure some folks do have issues, though. Shit happens. Is windows 11 shittier for install? I’ve never had the desire to try :)

    I’ve also installed various Linux distros on the above and a few other computers (Mint, Nobara, Fedora). Aside from Mint not working with my AMD RX 6600, no problems there either, really. And these distros installed easily.

    Again, ymmv. I knew Mint would probably fail because the 5.19 kernel does not seem to like my GPU. That’s why I switched to Nobara in the first place (iirc the 6.x kernel wasn’t available at the time)

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Good mini PC for around 100€English
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    4 months ago

    I have a couple Lenovo tiny form factors: an M700 8GB w/ J3710 running Pihole on Ubuntu server—which is total overkill in both CPU and mem; and an M73, 4GB w/4th gen i3 running jellyfin server on Mint 21.3. Certain kinds of transcoding brings it to its knees but for most 1080p streaming it’s fine. Memory is a bit tight; 8G would be better. It has a usb3 2T drive for video files that runs more than quick enough. Serial adapters are available if you want to use the console.

    The latter has been running for I think a couple years. The former I just set up.

    But I’ve been shopping for newer gear for the Jellyfin server. I think you could get a Dell, HP, or Lenovo 6th gen TFF with 8G and 256-512G internal SSD within your price range.

    I see some EliteDesk G800 G3 (6th gen Intel) tinys with no disk for $50-70 shipped on eBay in the US. I think those look the coolest by far :)

    You could find one with no disk, no ram and config as you please and probably still come in under budget.

    E-

    My eventual plan for the Jellyfin server is a SFF, probably an HP with enough space to fit a couple of big HDDs, plus 16G ram and a newer CPU that can transcode on the fly without lag.

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•[SOLVED] I can't change my /home location, and it's driving me madEnglish
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    4 months ago

    FWIW it is doable :) since I have Fedora (37) and a separate /home and / device. Btrfs in my case.

    How did you deal with the home sub volume?

    I will edit this with hopefully useful info about my fstab etc. in a few min…

    — okey dokey —

    Here’s my fstab. I had to comment out the home subvol and mount /home

    UUID=02b32afc-3e05-412b-8781-xxx /                       btrfs   subvol=root,compress=zstd:1 0 0
UUID=e82e80a8-b169-4127-90ad-xxx /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
UUID=D358-0ADF          /boot/efi               vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2
#UUID=02b32afc-3e05-412b-8781-xxx /home                   btrfs   subvol=home,compress=zstd:1 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/7b194608-a407-4c2c-a0d8-xxx /home auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

    Permissions on /home mount point (before mounting device to mountpoint):

    $ ls -la /home
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   0 Jan  5 20:47 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 166 Feb 27 18:36 ..

$ sudo getfacl home
# file: home
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

    Relevant output from df

    $ df
Filesystem      1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3       998540288   5447260 991484436   1% /
/dev/nvme0n1p6 1248619684 932769256 258218276  79% /home

    Home dir permissions

    $ ls -ldZ /home/mes
drwxr-xr-x. 196 mes mes system_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 12288 Feb 27 19:13 /home/mes

$ sudo getfacl /home/mes
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/mes
# owner: mes
# group: mes
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

    Let me know if I can give any additional info.

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•looking for half-stable Linux distroEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Gotcha. The difficulty in upgrading OS versions was my major gripe. Not that this is unique to Mint I’m guessing.

    Second was unavailability of newer versions (or any versions) of some software. At the time, one example was FreeCAD being a couple years behind the current version.

    And in fact this second issue made the first issue worse. I could’ve run an LTS longer. But from day one certain packages were pretty far behind and those packages didn’t get major version upgrades until I switched to the next Mint release.

    Or else I would have to point to another repo. So at one point I had a bunch of different repos. Then one might go down and break the update and upgrade process.

    And if not that approach I would have to find some other way to install but I still want to keep it updated semi automatically which isn’t possible in some cases.

    Idk. I may switch to a rolling release distro at some point. But for now Fedora runs newer versions of the kernel and presumably(?) other software, or at least it hasn’t been an issue, thus far.

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I tried, I really didEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Like with any unfamiliar tech I find it is probably smoother to start small and work your way up.

    So find a laptop that people have no issues running Linux on. Get one and then install just Linux on that and play with it.

    The thing is, Linux has a small user base and so it probably isn’t realistic to expect it to support every conceivable hardware configuration on top of dual booting on every one with Windows. It’s way better than it used to be but sometimes people run into problems. Like me trying to get 5.19 kernel to work properly with my specific newer AMD GPU (any 6.x kernel is fine so like Fedora? No prob).

    One of the things I try to do is research what network card chipsets, sound chipsets, and video card models work easily because some just don’t.

    It sucks I know. Linux doesn’t have a gazillion dollar market behind it providing significant incentive for vendors to get their shit straight. Even so Linux does pretty well.

    Anyway. When you’re fighting with several things at once it is easy to get overwhelmed and frustrated. Dual boot with windows, alone, can be iffy in my recent experience. Then add Nvidia, more headache. Then add some less common use cases like rdp… Etc.

    Best of luck if you try again.