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I've been using Proxmox for many years now. Currently, I'm running an Intel 11400 CPU (12 threads) with 64GB of RAM—a rather modest setup (OPNsense, Paperless, Plex, Pi-hole, Joplin, and similar services, nothing too resource-intensive), but it works well for my small home lab. This isn’t the first machine I’ve used to host my services, and I fear it won’t be the last...

What's the problem? I tend to get anxious when I see that the number of threads I have (12) equals the number of vCPUs I've allocated to my VMs. That’s when I start thinking about upgrading my processor.
I know, it's probably an unfounded and somewhat silly concern. Every time I check my VMs, they are mostly idle. Sometimes, my firewall uses more resources when traffic is heavy—I’ve assigned it 4 vCPUs, and even then, it only reaches a maximum usage of about 40% in those moments.

Can anyone give me some advice on this? Right now, I have around 20 vCPUs assigned in total, and everything seems to be working fine. But when I see so many people in this group with powerful, high-thread-count processors, I start to feel a bit uneasy.

Best regards, and thanks in advance!


Originally posted by u/jrgldt on Reddit

 

Hi all!
I am in need to create an home NAS to store all my photos/video.
While searching for some HW I thought that if it is possible to create a NAS that can handle:
- Streaming (with Plex or alternatives)
- Storage and editing in RAID5
- Cloud storage (Nextcloud or similar)

I only own an i5-7400 LGA 1151, 1 SSD@128GB for the OS and a case.
I need to find a good Motherboard HDD/SSD.

Can you help ? Thanks!!


Originally posted by u/kashim93 on Reddit

 

I got my 5 node Pi cluster finished last night. Each Pi is a 8Gb Raspberry Pi 5 with a PoE hat so it is powered over Ethernet with a M.2 hat booting off a NVMe SSD drive. I have it running docker swarm and running a dotnet application I wrote years ago that is a web UI front end to a mongo database of all the billboard top 100 hits from 1946-2024. Just for giggles I did a docker service scale replicas=200 and it handled it just fine!  Next I plan to install Pi-Hole, Paperless-ngx, homebridge, and ???

https://preview.redd.it/qzpewj4kpnoe1.jpg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76aa4e37455e761257797f5ca22b818703d5f7aa


Originally posted by u/sharkfoo on Reddit

 

Stuck a 6U in an unused space above my refrigerator.


Originally posted by u/flxguy1 on Reddit

 

Hello!

We are facing a problem that we have not been able to identify the cause of for some time. Maybe you can help us.

The server simply restarts or freezes when using virtualization.

We have already tested and/or replaced:

  • RAM
  • Disk IO
  • Processors
  • FCP card
  • Ethernet card

We have even replaced the entire server. We replaced it with another one and the problem persists.

We think it may be something related to the rack, or position in the rack.

The temperature is monitored and does not increase so much that it shuts down the machine. When we run the memory test, the temperature increases and the machine does not shut down, so it must not be the temperature.

In the rack and in the cluster, we have 3 exactly the same servers, and this is the only one that has a problem. And it is the server that is in the middle.

In Linux, the only log we have is the one below:

kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 0
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]: It has been corrected by h/w and requires no further action
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]: event severity: corrected
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:  Error 0, type: corrected
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   section_type: general processor error
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   processor_type: 0, IA32/X64
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   processor_isa: 2, X64
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   error_type: 0x01
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   cache error
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   operation: 0, unknown or generic
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   version_info: 0x0000000000050657
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   processor_id: 0x0000000000000047

Yesterday I installed Gigabyte GSM to have a second option for monitoring BMC.

The following messages appeared in the log events:

Gigabyte Event Logs

If you give us any tips, I will be eternally grateful.


Originally posted by u/myridan86 on Reddit

 

Originally posted by u/DigiGoon on Reddit

 

I posted my rack a long time ago but college was demotivating me so I took a break from the project. But now I've got the motivation back and I finally bought a patch panel off FB marketplace. Took 9 hours to get it installed and all the cables crimped but it was worth it. I'm currently recreating my college capstone project on my homelab to make it easier to complete at school on classroom equipment.


Originally posted by u/PaulBlart2003 on Reddit

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