Here’s another one for good measure

There are a number of enterprise storage systems optimized specifically for SMR drives. This is targeting actual data centers, not us humble homelabbers masquerading as enterprises.

The suggestion and response are both meant humorously. It clearly isn’t actually a good answer because it doesn’t actually solve the problem, except in some passive-agressive far-off-in-the-future way.

I follow a huge number of artists on Bandcamp which I mostly discovered through Chiptunes=WIN (which unfortunately seems to have erased itself from the internet), and the occasional collab album is enough to keep gradually discovering new artists.

KDE user here, I still use X11 to play old Minecraft versions. LWJGL2 uses xrandr to read (and sometimes modify? wtf) display configurations on Linux, and the last few times I’ve tried it on Wayland it kept screwing the whole desktop up.

nobody expects the ottoman Inquisition

Wait really? I use (((triple parentheses))) quite often to indicate sarcastic emphasis on a word. Damn racists ruining my punctuation >:(

Nouveau is dead, it’s been replaced with Zink on NVK.

True, but there are also some legitimate applications for 100s of gigabytes of RAM. I’ve been working on a thing for processing historical OpenStreetMap data and it is quite a few orders of magnitude faster to fill the database by loading the 300GiB or so of point data into memory, sorting it in memory, and then partitioning and compressing it into pre-sorted table files which RocksDB can ingest directly without additional processing. I had to get 24x16GiB of RAM in order to do that, though.

In my experience, nouveau is painfully slow and crashes constantly to the point of being virtually unusable for anything. The developers agree, as in the last couple months nouveau has been phased out of Mesa entirely. More recent Mesa versions now implement OpenGL on Nvidia using Zink on NVK, and the result is quite a bit faster and FAR more stable.

If your distribution currently still ships a Mesa version which uses nouveau, I would personally recommend you just stick with the Intel graphics for now.

Aside from checking the kernel log (sudo dmesg) and system log (sudo journalctl -xe) for any interesting messages, I might suggest simply watching for any processes which are abnormally high while the system is running slow. My initial approach would be to use htop (disable “Hide Kernel Threads” and enable “Detailed CPU Time”), and seeing which processes, if any, are eating up your CPU time. The colored core utilization bars at the top show how much CPU time is being spent on what: gray for disk wait, red for kernel, green for regular user process, etc. That information will be a good starting point.

Real or Cake?

y*s, i am

1/13th of an AMD Epyc 9755

I have tried hosting a Tor relay on a VPS in the past and it was bottlenecked by the CPU at barely 20MB/s, although to be fair this was without hardware AES. More importantly for you, the server’s IP started getting DDoSed constantly and a whole bunch of big internet services just immediately blocked the address (the list of relay IPs is public and many things just block every address on that list instead of only exit nodes). So any of your machines are probably at least somewhat up to the task (ideally if they have hardware AES support), but this is definitely not something I’d do on my home network.

You could throw it into the Money Hole

I feel like this could work using a tiny generator attached to the drive’s motorized wheel, but that’s probably too complex to be cost-effective for something like this unfortunately.

I would be very hesitant to run sed on a bunch of files consisting primarily of highly compressed binary data.

Okay, but to be fair you should divide that by at least 2^64 because ISPs are throwing out huge blocks left and right. My home plan with Swisscom gives me a single dynamic IPv4 address and an entire /64 IPv6 prefix, and I’m pretty sure it was /60 at one point.