“When he reached the New World, Cortezh burned hish ships. Ash a reshult hish men were well motivated.” —Capt. Ramius, played by Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October

Idk what you’re into buddy

but I like it.

Inflation.

Damn. That is no mean feat, I would imagine.

Although I don’t even know what I don’t know about video cards so it’s no doubt a monumental task. Especially for one guy.

What are you trying to achieve?

It’s kind of horrifying nobody thought that through. What else did they fail to think about?

Totally agree. Have been there and done that quite a few times too.

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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.

I was a sysadmin, once…Not for long.

I think it was sunspots.

How could Linux do this to you??

(Totally never happened to me /s)

Good to know. Well I have 16G now that should give me plenty to spare.

I will have to try that once my ram upgrade gets here.

Emacs for coding. Fight me.

We are twins.

I try to help when I can to pay penance for when I was young and an asshole.

Hm. Rust sounds better and better every time I hear something new about it.

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.

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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.

Doesn’t everyone just boot by entering machine code with the switch panel in the front?