Re: new computer

2024-02-25 Thread wheelie207 via PLUG-discuss
Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS I have a system with over 32 gigs of DDR5 ram and the swap isn’t even used. I also have a thread ripper cpu and it runs at 5.8 gigahertz in speed on a am5 slot. But these new boards run the data through the cpu when reading and writing

Re: new computer

2024-02-25 Thread Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss
SSD ram cache does not prevent wear and tear on your SSD, it is used stop the bottleneck slowdown when writing lots of data to the SSD. The best way to prevent wear and tear is system ram, if you have enough ram the system may not even have to swap anything out, The three things that I always move

Re: Part 2 :Failure to access repositories when installing Ubuntu 23.10 and 22.04 on Proxmox

2024-02-25 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Todd, thank you so much for your help!! I went to datacenter->Firewall->Options and Firewall was already set to No. I assume this is at the Proxmox level. Problem still persists. Then I went to Datacenter->PVE->Firewall->Options and the firewall was set to Yes. I changed it to No and the

Re: Part 2 :Failure to access repositories when installing Ubuntu 23.10 and 22.04 on Proxmox

2024-02-25 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Thanks!! I'll give it a look!! On 2024-02-24 13:55, Todd Cole via PLUG-discuss wrote: proxmox 8 has all network connections routed thu the proxmox firewall proxmox upgrades add the firewall to each vm you can disable that by checking the network setup on each VM and uncheck the firewall I ha

Re: new computer

2024-02-25 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
On my current system I am running without swap, but I do have 32gb ram. If you pick an ssd with a ram cache on it you don't have to worry about swap as much there. And you can extend ssd life with underprovisioning if it still is a concern. But in reality a good quality ssd Wil last for years even

Re: new computer

2024-02-25 Thread James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss
To avoid swap wearing out your ssd, if you don't have an hd handy, you can set vm.swappiness to 0. This is not great since paging is quite efficient these days, but sometimes you'll want swap for suspend operations and don't want to actually page unless you're under memory pressure. On Sat, Feb 2