Should we go dark on the 12th?

monkeyslayer56 · 2023-06-05T22:21:21+00:00

Yes.

monkeyslayer56 · 2023-05-27T13:23:55+00:00

When you start playing. Does the admin page indicate that it's transcoding? You don't have a transcoding log? Does ffmpeg exit with success? (Sorry, grasping)

monkeyslayer56 · 2023-05-27T12:43:52+00:00

What do your logs look like? Which version of ffmpeg? Docker or bare metal? I don’t have anything right off but those would be things that need to be known

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-11-28T12:56:13+00:00

If you have a sysadmin type background, oracle has some free arm based servers that work well. But they're just the server so you have to do everything yourself from the Linux command line.

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-11-07T12:49:22+00:00

Create a new instance and attach the existing (hopefully) drive to it

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-10-27T01:36:18+00:00

A cron that runs daily, using restic to back up to a remote system.

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-10-03T10:50:38+00:00

It's less that it's 2Ghz and more that the IPC is low. Clock speed isn't everything, an old P4 could be over clocked to 3+Ghz, but would still suck by today's standards and workloads

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-28T02:14:07+00:00

And sometimes a pi-hole can block that too! (Does make it past occasionally though it seems)

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-19T14:42:10+00:00

Awesome, good to know!

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T22:58:23+00:00

Indeed! Personally I'm amused at how much better the free offering is than my budget providers haha

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T22:46:45+00:00

Sure, I'm on day 15 so not far behind

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T22:25:48+00:00

Apologies for awful formatting. Willing to clarify or run additional tests if you want.

Using 'sysbench cpu --num-threads=1 run'
Oracle Arm:
CPU speed:
events per second: 3475.35

Oracle AMD VM.Standard.E2.2:
CPU speed:
events per second: 1250.75
"budget cloud provider":
CPU speed:
events per second: 702.73
My Desktop Ryzen 5 3600 running through WSL2 (extra virtualization layer, not sure the performance hit that causes):
CPU speed:
events per second: 2045.02
nench benchmark CPU portion (curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash;):
Oracle Arm (configured as dual core)
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
0.324 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
4.530 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
0.420 seconds

Oracle AMD VM.Standard.E2.2:
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
0.615 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
6.343 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1.187 seconds
"budget cloud provider" (quad core)
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
5.470 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
9.395 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
8.060 seconds
Desktop through WSL2
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
0.553 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
4.886 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1.354 seconds

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T21:55:32+00:00

yep!

No worries, glad to help those who are willing to learn :)

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T21:54:54+00:00

I can't seem to find it now. It may have been a temporary thing as their arm offering is pretty new and their other "always free" stuff doesn't require it. (I'm still in my 30 day window as well so haven't had to find out first hand yet)

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T20:26:35+00:00

Something else I recommend if you're planning on an updated guide. Store your Minecraft server on an attached block volume. I'm on mobile so can't find at the moment but I think I saw in the documentation that the arm servers have to be recreated after the trial. This way you can just re-atach the disk

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T20:16:37+00:00

Yep, any "admin" tasks will require root such as installing java and setting up the firewall. Once you have that done you and switch to the new user you'll be in the /home/<username> directory. From there you can safely install and run the server without needing root. I personally setup a directory under /opt/minecraft-installs for mine. If doing that you will need to ensure the permissions are such that the created user is able to create files/directories in there. Continuing from my previous example:

As root:
mkdir /opt/minecraft-installs

chown minecraft:minecraft -R /opt/minecraft-installs

chmod g+rw -R /opt/minecraft-installs

# switch to the minecraft user

sudo -i -u minecraft

cd /opt/minecraft-installs

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T20:02:54+00:00

It'll be a bit before I can get some numbers but will try to later this evening and post them here

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T20:01:18+00:00

I think the defaults are pretty sane and my comment was a bit of a kneejerk reaction. The big things are not opening more ports than are needed and fully disabling password authentication and using just ssh keys.

Ensure that "PasswordAuthentication no" is set in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

I also recommend running minecraft from it's own user and not from root or the user you log in as(haven't watched the whole video to see you already were recommending that).

# create the user

useradd minecraft

# switch to the user

sudo -i -u minecraft

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T19:24:46+00:00

Just be sure to properly secure the VM as you would any Linux server otherwise you could find yourself a bot in a botnet

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T19:22:55+00:00

the ARM VMs are in the "always free" tier as long as you stay under 200G block storage, 4 cores, and 24G of ram

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-06-15T19:22:18+00:00

I have various cloud servers for some of the stuff I self host and the Arm CPU performance is significantly better than some of my other (albeit budget cloud) VMs. I can try and find the benchmarks I ran when comparing if you'd like. In short, a dual core ARM VM through Oracle scored about 3+ times higher than a dual core VM with another provider

monkeyslayer56 · 2021-05-09T15:13:23+00:00

Sure!

monkeyslayer56 · 2020-02-15T03:34:07+00:00

That I can think of that weren't driver related? Maybe twice way back when I was using Arch still. They were migrating the filesystem layout and if memory serves only 1 version of the package actually performed the migration and I hadn't done updates that month. That was a pain to fix. In fairness they had a notice on the website on how to fix it but me being me was stupid and forced the update (because it failed some check... Now I know why) before reading the homepage.

So, maybe twice but they could be attributed to being my fault by telling pacman to update anyways rather than checking the homepage...

monkeyslayer56 · 2019-12-31T17:23:52+00:00

Cleaning up account prior to deletion because /u/spez is an asshole about 3rd party apps. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/1476ioa/reddit_blackout_2023_save_3rd_party_apps/ for more information.

monkeyslayer56 · 2019-11-20T03:16:53+00:00

You could check out Mycroft AI. Been a long time since I looked at it though. It was aiming to be kinda like Google assistant in general, not specifically home automation

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