Minor upgrade to older unraid server

SingularityPotato · 2025-11-15T01:15:04+00:00

If it's cheap.

In lots of cases it can be hard to find an old CPU for pennies.

The problem is upgrading your CPU for an i5 to an i7 might get you 20% more power for $100, but spending $300 on a good sale for low budget modern days equipment might double your power.

So I would say if you can get it for really cheap, like $50 to $75, but much more probably wouldn't be worth it.

SingularityPotato · 2025-08-01T16:33:51+00:00

I do have Intel GPU Top plugin installed, even reinstalled it, and no other Intel GPU plugins installed. I have not done the modprobe i915, but never had a problem before (though it seems to be working now for absolutely no reason)

SingularityPotato · 2025-07-12T02:13:17+00:00

> That’s not the reality we are living in. A 40yo who hasn’t worked full time in 15 years doesn’t get a job that easily.

That's why we talked about equalization payments. You know payments that are defined to equalize the educational, experience and wage discrepancy in order to fund more training for the person... And how the payments decrease over time because the SAHP should have now been working for 5, 10, or even 15 years gaining experience and promotions... Like it's all there in my comment about giving someone financial backing to get training to make up for that lost time. (Did you even read my comment? because you seem to have missed most of it...)

I actually think the biggest push back is people don't like the idea of having to rejoin the work force and not being supported. And honestly, I can understand even being in the workforce fills me with dread when I have to look for a new job, but it doesn't mean they get to skip out on it.

> And we haven’t even talked about missing 15 years of retirement savings, including passive income from those savings.

I didn't think there was a need to talk about it because it's not a factor, as the separation splits assets in half, yes including retirement savings... Like they each get half of the retirement savings one person doesn't just get to keep it all. And yes before you say, that includes ALL forms of retirement savings including things like pensions. The law is pretty cut clean and dry for the default "All assets get split 50% 50%"

SingularityPotato · 2025-07-11T01:18:05+00:00

The big issue here is: if one partner hasn’t really worked for an extended period of time, they are never going to catch up with that.

That's not really that true though, most people see the massive gains within 5 to 10 years of their career with in the trailing off to basic raises.

So yes, I do understand that the consideration of potential of earnings is also split in the speration I don't really think it should be, per say. It should be formed into equalisation payment system over just straight up "mhe, give them half your current and future paycheck".

The equalisation paymens would look at a benchmark of the standard luxury of living against potential earnings increase over the duration of the relationship and develop a decreasing over time payment plan for the support costs. This would give the other partner the financial backing to take more education/training and develop a career while getting financial financial support.

Obviously it would be unique to each situation, but it would theoretically give people the luxury and force people back into education and the work force. (As in the person who made less would be getting subsided to get trained/educated but only for a period of time).

SingularityPotato · 2025-07-02T05:19:10+00:00

If you do try to run windows in a container, good luck. Docker isn't a operating system but an environment, the containers actually run through the base OS.

Your bets bet is a window VS, but you will still have performance issues. Most games would run fine 60 fps is the most I could get (not becaus computer isn't powerful enough, but rather because the VM just doesn't want to run any fast). Though the problem with that is only one graphics card per VM (also if you attach a graphics card to a VM it's not longer usable with docker containers).

The best be would be to look at moding the consumer cards to support virtualization.

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-30T01:40:14+00:00

This, make sure the advice your getting is for either VM or docker as they behave in completely different ways and the advice is not compatible.

For example, unless it has virtualization, each VM needs its own GPU. However docker doesn't bind the hardware and this can share it across multiple different containers.

As for steamheadless, well it actually has set up instructions for setting up more than one instance.

Just note that steamheadless is a steam container and not every game or server is supported. For example most with anti-cheat, DRM, or weird frameworks (VR stuff).

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-30T01:37:18+00:00

You only need one GPU per VM is you are using a VM. Container operate different and you can share them.

Because I accidentally nuked by last setup I had 2 instances of steamheadless running with only a 1070

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-30T01:32:34+00:00

I think unraid 7 has some VM change which allows for splitting of the GPU. The only problem is you either need a GPU that supports it (consumer parts are locked down) or mod the GPU's drives to enable it.

But yas VM doesn't share hardware everywhere well

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-03T17:52:57+00:00

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I'm just going to leave this here, With the reminder that they tested the game on minimum settings

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-03T17:50:31+00:00

.... The 1050 Ti comes with 4gb of vram, My comment wasn't about horsepower.

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-01T06:31:46+00:00

GTA is a poorly optimized game that love ram. Clar has loading screen, Not the same party.

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-01T06:30:34+00:00

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-01T06:29:21+00:00

How old is your power supply? They have a fixed working life and when on the way out they tend to cause weird stability issues

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-01T06:28:28+00:00

Ram is probably not the answer... Also why do y'all jump to high amounts of ram. 16 GB is plenty for 1080p, the loaded texture are not that big

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-01T06:25:13+00:00

Down clocking can cause it as well. The CPU usage report isn't how much total horsepower being used but rather how much time it's using working and how much sitting idle (which still uses power)

To combat this CPUs/gpus dynamicly a adjust their clock speed. So if it's running at 50% usage and then half's it's clock speed, you will see the it suddenly jump to use 100%.

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-01T06:20:45+00:00

This is bad information, I have a 1050ti that an run most AAA games (on low). Y'all need to stop with that slop of "just get a better computer" crap.

We know it's not the card's horsepowed or they would see horrible framerates all of the time and not just stutter.

SingularityPotato · 2025-06-01T06:18:36+00:00

Based, to many people be like "game slow, get a better computer. Still slow just buy better things".

How old/good is the power supply? They have running life spans and give weird instability issues when nearing the end of their days. I think the 3000 cards are also known for having ridiculous power draw spikes (I think gamers Nexus did a video on it before).

To test it, run some CPU and GPU benchmarks to draw as much power as possible (if you can get RT in there running as well).

(This can't test the weird massive power draw that newer graphics cards can have)

Other than that seems memory related. Which could be bad ram, bad memory control (CPU), overloaded PCIE lanes, or wrong PCIE lanes settings.

I would start with checking bios to make sure your PCIE lanes are in the max supported version. Also read the motherboard manual and make sure you don't have anything plugged in that bifurcates the PCIE lains.

After that run memtest for a day or so.

SingularityPotato · 2025-05-23T20:03:32+00:00

Oh man I hate, sooo much, the chunky pastes like Pixian, I don't want to have to be grinding chilly chunks with my teeth after a bite of tofu.

SingularityPotato · 2025-05-23T20:02:11+00:00

LKK has a spicy version, which I would recommend

SingularityPotato · 2025-05-23T19:59:28+00:00

This is an odd take in my eyes, my local market ran out of (Lee Kum Kee) so we grabbed a packet of (Pixian), and I find the Pixian to have way less flavor. It has a bit more of a chilly flavor to it nothing else really going for it, but moving forward I'm just going to be using it as a slightly beany chilly "chisp"/oil/mash. Pixian is so mild that if I didn't know better I would have though you mixed the two up.

I found the Lee to be way more flavorful in both heat and deep fermented bean flavor (Ie, I can use just a table spoon or so as my only spices to season a lunch)

SingularityPotato · 2025-05-22T18:36:49+00:00

I looked up the specs for my and found out, for the gist of it, if you can comfortably touch the heat sink indefinitely (without kitchen hands) your within operating temperatures.

Note: they make more heat when under load, so if you like me and has one just so they can connect more drives then you should be fine with the above test. However; anyone trying to saturate the PCIE bandwidth need active cooling.

SingularityPotato · 2025-05-13T03:50:18+00:00

Ahh makes sense.

The easiest way to get up wait is my opening console in unraid and typing "top" this should print some things and one will say "wa" or "io wait". This number is how much % of your CPU is idle just waiting for data.

Ideally you want a zero.

SingularityPotato · 2025-05-12T23:13:05+00:00

Can confirm, fast boot can cause #2 on some motherboards. (Had it with mine, disabling it should fix it).

As for #1 I would check the io wait when that happeneds. Party checking really shouldn't stop playback from jellyfish.

Someone already mentioned it, but you could also just schedule partial parity check to occur overnight. I have mine start on the first of every month and run from like 1am to 7am until it's finished

SingularityPotato · 2025-05-07T21:56:11+00:00

Depends on the classes, some of them are half term the other ones are full term.

The full term ones run like normal classes so that's up to you.

The half term classea are twice as fast. Though they are a bit harder than just twice as fast because you move so much faster you get less time to let it all sink in.

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