u/ElBartimaeus

Hey,

I've been given a task to help with a new server configuration for our team of roughly 25-30 SW engineers mainly developing embedded systems in C++. Part of the team works on web development but we're not hosting anything as far as I know. I have no clue where to start and what bottlenecks to look for so here I am asking for advice.

List of things this server needs to

• self-hosted GitLab
• container registry
• artifact storage
• 8 to 12 parallel small-to-medium CI jobs
• 3 to 5 long-running or idle containers without choking the whole machine
• later acting as the communication endpoint for a separate HIL server

Our budget is around 4 mil HUF ~11 221 EUR.

I asked AI, this was it's suggestion:

• CPU: AMD EPYC 9354P, 32 cores / 64 threads
• Motherboard/platform: single-socket SP5 server board with BMC/IPMI
• RAM: 256 GB ECC RDIMM
• System and data storage: 2 x 3.84 TB enterprise NVMe, RAID1 or ZFS mirror
• Chassis: 2U or 4U server chassis with hot-swap bays
• Power: redundant dual PSU
• Networking: 2 x 10 GbE, or a dedicated NIC if not onboard
• Cooling: proper server-grade cooling, not workstation-style
• Management: IPMI/iKVM is mandatory

Is this even viable? I'd appreciate any help, including sources of information on how to size a server.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: for some reason it got lost, if possible, we might use this as a SIL setup, too but those plans are far more vague.

Hey,

I've been given a task to help with a new server configuration for our team of roughly 25-30 SW engineers mainly developing embedded systems in C++. Part of the team works on web development but we're not hosting anything as far as I know. I have no clue where to start and what bottlenecks to look for so here I am asking for advice.

List of things this server needs to

• self-hosted GitLab
• container registry
• artifact storage
• 8 to 12 parallel small-to-medium CI jobs
• 3 to 5 long-running or idle containers without choking the whole machine
• later acting as the communication endpoint for a separate HIL server

Our budget is around 4 mil HUF ~11 221 EUR.

I asked AI, this was it's suggestion:

• CPU: AMD EPYC 9354P, 32 cores / 64 threads
• Motherboard/platform: single-socket SP5 server board with BMC/IPMI
• RAM: 256 GB ECC RDIMM
• System and data storage: 2 x 3.84 TB enterprise NVMe, RAID1 or ZFS mirror
• Chassis: 2U or 4U server chassis with hot-swap bays
• Power: redundant dual PSU
• Networking: 2 x 10 GbE, or a dedicated NIC if not onboard
• Cooling: proper server-grade cooling, not workstation-style
• Management: IPMI/iKVM is mandatory

Is this even viable? I'd appreciate any help, including sources of information on how to size a server.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: for some reason it got lost, if possible, we might use this as a SIL setup, too but those plans are far more vague.

Hey,

I know the monitor in the title is a very well regarded item so I assume many people have it. Has anybody encountered an issue with it where the monitor stands start resonating even during typing? The monitor shakes left to right and up and down on a perfectly stable table.

What solutions would you suggest?

Many bosses have hidden immunities that doesn't make sense and it is not written anywhere. Why is Ansur immune to be wet? Like he's a full grown dragon there, why can't I drouse it? Why is it immune to phantasma killer? Most of the bosses are immune to that but it isn't stated anywhere, can't they get hunted by their own mind or however that would work? I understand legendary resistances, it's part of the game but these hidden immunities that simply make no sense.

It's annoying that you lose an action or even more to find it out.

Edit: steeped in bliss is one of the most annoying, it says all creatures are steeped in bliss, yet some bosses are just like, nope, I'm not a creature, including Ansur.

Hey,

I've read that offsetting your cpu could benefit you a lot especially regarding temperature values for the abovementioned cpu, however even at -20 I was locked in a boot loop for a few attempts after exiting the bios and ultimately my motherboard reset this feature to default. (I have an asrock b650m riptide.)

Finally, after I double checked in the bios that everything relevant was set to default, I was still locked in a boot loop and I needed a CMOS reset to fix that.

*Temperature details*

My cpu idles slightly above 40 C and under light load (~10%) goes up to around 55 C, at 35% it goes above 60 C and then it stays there for quite a while. i haven't done intense stress testing, just a few benchmarks where I had 100% CPU utilization for a few seconds over and over again. In those cases my CPU never crossed the 85 C mark (which was wet as Tjmax in the bios by default).

At 55 C the cpu cooler already produces a noise that can be noticed and above 65 it gets pretty audible. Not too loud per se, but far louder than what I was experiencing with my previous setup. (Note that my last setup was very efficient with a noctua air cooler, now I have a thermalright 240 aio.) Still, I wanted to undervolt my cpu so that I can stay in the super quiet range and barely reach the louder temps while gaming.

*Question*

Is it still possible to move forward with undervolting or does it seem like I just lost the silicon lottery? Does it even matter or could I just get away with a quieter fan setup?

Thanks for any support in advance.