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   hazardous: up_the_irons: any chance you got specials running on dedis? possible to swap out 1x1tb for 2x500gb or something?
   toddf: hazardous: he is rather accomodating on the vps side, so if you propose something logistically possible and economically sensible, you've got the openings of a good negotiation ;-)
   
 'logistically possible' is likely going to equate to his hw inventory availability ;-)
   hazardous: dedicated side, not vps though
   
 it's for a project i'm working on that will involve a significant amount of cpu pounding
   
 that i'm not sure vps hosts are typically ok with
   toddf: well what I mean to say is, I've made some even steven deals on the vps side (less mem more disk, etc) and it was accepted. I've not experienced the dedicated side, but since you're dealing with the same person, I'm willing to bet if you propose something that's sensible, he'll listen ;-)
   
 vps hosts are not overprovisioned either in cpu nor in disk
   
 so you can check, but the only time I've been aware of someone causing issues to other vps systems is if they are hitting the disk io 'unfairly' (there is not a 'provisioning technique' for disk io that is in use, newer qemu might be able to limit io speed, but I kindof like the responsiveness as it is ..)
   
 I say 'newer qemu' since kvm and qemu are basically one and the same these days
   hazardous: heh
   
 yeah i am not going to be pounding disk much
   
 but i am using it as a development/staging system
   
 and code will occasionally run amok, memory leak, cpu leak
   
 and i feel that i would potentially be a bad neighbour to vm's so :<
   toddf: I have used my vps originally as a development platform that eventually turned production, its cpu is faster than anything I have here in the office, and it does a crashdump and reboot faster than anything I own too
   
 if you are swapping to death, probably; short of that likely not, but hey, if your budget permits bare metal, you could install e.g. proxmox.com and have your own vps instances for annoying each other inside your big shell
   up_the_irons: hazardous: i generally don't have specials on the dedis because they are already a really good deal for the specs.  check competition.
   
 hazardous: are you preferring 2x500gb for mirroring or something?
   hazardous: up_the_irons: yeah i just want sw raid1
   
 i refuse to run single disk as a personal issue
   
 disk space is not a matter to me, but just at least having something resembling redundancy
   up_the_irons: hazardous: what plan are you looking at?
   hazardous: lowest one, but that's already overkill for my needs
   
 wouldn't be using anywhere near the bw cap too
   up_the_irons: hazardous: so where do you want the price point to be?
   hazardous: what can you do for about a hundredish
   up_the_irons: hazardous: the thing about disks is, look at the price difference between a 500GB and 1TB disk, it's like $10.  so sometimes people want to pay less for smaller disk but they don't realize the cost is nearly identical.
   hazardous: ah
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   hazardous: hm, what are the chances you can offer vps with dedicated cores (don't know if qemu does that)
   up_the_irons: hazardous: we don't offer that; a vps is a shared service.  you want dedicated cores, get a dedicated server :)
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   mercutio: wow, that is a lot of bw on dedicated servers.
   
 weird it costs $129 for 8 gb server, and $149 got 16gb server, but $10 for 8gb ram
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   up_the_irons: Sold one dedicated server, and another coming in shortly.  Dang, good day for dedicateds
   phrac: ;)
   mercutio: heh i wouldn't mind a dedicated server, but i'm nowhere naer to being able to afford
   hazardous: phrac you seem familiar but i can't place it
   
 oh. synirc
   phrac: hazardous: I don't remember what channel I was on in synirc
   
 ahh
   
 newznab probably
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   medum: hmm. upgraded to openbsd 5.2 and network is broken. em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
   
 anyone seen that before?
   mercutio: yip
   
 how frequent?
   medum: shows up again every couple minutes and won't respond to anything
   mercutio: oh
   
 it's nothing liek that often for me
   
 i did uhjh omsething
   
 is that 32 bit or 64bit?
   
 clock: unknown CMOS layout
   
 em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
   
 em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
   
 i've had it twice since bootup
   
 12:35PM  up 50 days, 18:05, 2 users, load averages: 0.27, 0.14, 0.10
   
 hmm i have 5.2-current
   medum: amd64. 5.1 worked great no issues. can't even ping 5.2
   mercutio: oh
   
 it doesn't work at all
   
 does em0 show the ip?
   medum: yea
   mercutio: try a kernel from 5.3's beta thingy?
   
 see if it behaves
   medum: well booting 5.2 bsd.rd i did an ftp install
   mercutio: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/bsd
   
 hmm
   medum: finished and rebooted, now its dead
   mercutio: and that worked at that point
   toddf: 'disable mpbios' is required unless you're on kvr27 or higher
   mercutio: hmm
   
 i've been usign custom kernels
   
 so yeh mpbios may be disabled for me anyway
   medum: toddf: i'll give that a try
   mercutio: mpbios at bios0 function 0x0 not configured
   
 does that mean it's disabled?
   toddf: yes
   mercutio: when's 5.3 out?
   
 oh may
   
 that's ages away
   toddf: traditionally 1st part of may. look at the previous release schedule, its mostly like clockwork, except the official release tends to coincide with a few days after cdrom's have arrived in the prepurchased peoples hands..
   
 depends, if you're familiar with the release cycle, you'll note things are in 5.3-beta now, find bugs now or wait till 5.4 to have them fixed in an official release basically
   mercutio: at work using 5.0 on something
   
 actually 4.8 on something too i think
   
 i've only had this em0 issue
   
 i think i reduced my timeout
   
 before reset
   
 but i assume it's a qemu issue rather than openbsd
   medum: works with mpbios disabled, thanks
   mercutio: todd: do you know anything about the watchdog thing?
   
 it may be that it doesn't realyl ened to reset it
   toddf: worst case 'ifconfig em0 down up' but if the nic works, ignore random warnings like that. if it effects your performance, worry .. ;-)
   mercutio: heh
   
 it used to
   
 i really should diff to see what i did
   toddf: in other news, current and 5.3 will come with virtio support
   mercutio: it used to happen more often that it does now
   
 toddf: yah, that's why was wondering about 5.3 :)
   
 my 5.2-current has virtio but i'm on old node
   toddf: kvr27 and higher have stable virtio nic/disk/memory baloon support
   mercutio: new nodes work with smp too
   toddf: sd0 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <VirtIO, Block Device, > SCSI3 0/direct fixed
   
 sd0: 81920MB, 512 bytes/sector, 167772160 sectors
   mercutio: toddf: oh you're on new node?
   toddf: virtio0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Network" rev 0x00: Virtio Network Device
   
 vio0 at virtio0: address 52:54:00:ee:e1:22
   
 virtio0: apic 1 int 11
   
 virtio1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Storage" rev 0x00: Virtio Block Device
   
 vioblk0 at virtio1
   
 virtio1: apic 1 int 11
   
 oh yeah, have one vps on kvr27 and another on kvr28, when I'm not busy and have some other things taken care of, I'll see if I can move my other vps'en to newer kvr systems *grin*
   
 time to skoot, kids and evening routine are ready to steal my keyboard!
   up_the_irons: my gawd, 12 servers in 3U! -- http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/3U/5037/SYS-5037MC-H12TRF.cfm
   
 they even support 4x disks (2.5") per server with an add-on tray
   mercutio: up_the_irons: ssd's :)
   
 up_the_irons: dell have had something like that for years
   
 oh i think it was 4 servers in 2u
   
 12 in 3u is pretty crazy
   
 the problem is that you can't really feed enough power
   
 it's all very nice having high density servers, but you need enough power/cooling for the rack still
   up_the_irons: mercutio: yeah, but where i'm located i can already have 60A per cabinet
   mercutio: how many amps do those servers use?
   
 60a seems pretty high, but that's 110v i imagine :)
   
 so that's like less than 30 amp 240v
   up_the_irons: yeah 60a at 120v
   mercutio: i imagien you'll still hit your limit :)
   
 is that 30amps * 2 ?
   
 cos the other thing is if you want to use all 60 amps you lose redundant power i imagine?
   up_the_irons: yeah for sure you'll hit the limit, but you can get even more power per rack if you need
   
 no, i have 60A per rack *with* redundant power
   mercutio: oh cool
   up_the_irons: (well, one of the racks is 60A, not all of 'em)
   mercutio: so 60a * 2
   
 how do prices compare to 1u boxes?
   
 it looks like that is sata not sas
   
 i wonder what enterprise 2.5" hard-disks are around that are sata not sas
   
 ebay seems to think $5000 for chassis with 8 motherboards
   
 then need cpu, ram, hard-disk
   
 http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-POWEREDGE-C6100-XS23-TY3-SERVER-8x-L5520-QUAD-CORE-CPUS-96GB-MEM-4x-TRAYS-/170971630149?_trksid=p2047675.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D142%26meid%3D5714756017857345721%26pid%3D100010%26prg%3D1076%26rk%3D4%26sd%3D320946716752%26
   
 erk long
   
 http://tinyurl.com/abaszwe
   up_the_irons: it supports ss
   mercutio: versus c6100 is much cheaper :)
   up_the_irons: *sas
   mercutio: get one of those c6100 and sell cheap dedicated maybe? :)
   up_the_irons: that's used though, right?
   mercutio: yeh
   
 it's older too
   
 e5520 cpus
   
 err it's actually l5520
   
 a little better
   
 still l5520 is fast enough for a lot of things
   up_the_irons: for that particular one, it's only 4x nodes right?
   
 where would the other 4x go?? ;)
   
 is it a different tray type if u want 8x?  I know jack about dell...
   mercutio: i dunno
   
 it depends how much you pay for rack space
   
 the dell is older one only does 4 servers
   
 but it's only 2u
   
 it's still twice the density of 1u servers
   
 and takes cheaper 3.5" hard-disks
   
 it seems to only come with 4 disk trays though
   
 and one power supply
   up_the_irons: yeah noticed the one ps
   
 all in all, not a bad deal
   mercutio: depends what requirements are
   
 like that is probably simlar speed to e3-1240v2
   
 but way older
   up_the_irons: yeah
   
 and 1100w ps
   mercutio: 8 real cores versus 4 real cores
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   mercutio: but like half the performance per core
   up_the_irons: while with 1620w ps with supermicro e3's, you get 8x servers
   mercutio: yeah but psu doesn't mean everything
   
 it doesn't really tell you how much power it uses
   up_the_irons: but it tells u the max power
   mercutio: and supermicro is like way more expensive
   
 it's not even max power really
   up_the_irons: not if you compare new vs. new
   mercutio: often servers only max out at half their psu wattage
   
 hmm
   up_the_irons: but nevertheless, it obviously will never be more than 1620 W
   mercutio: well yes
   
 that's actually quite low
   
 e3 cpus are pretty low power
   
 i suppose i was just thinking about how hazardous was saying that he wanted cheap dedicated
   
 and there's a fair amount of people who want cheap dedicated rather than newest greatest dedicated
   
 but i suppose you also have to weigh up cost of power etc
   
 and rack space
   up_the_irons: yeah, the thing is, no matter how much the unit is on ebay, if it sucks a lot of power, you can never really go "cheap" dedicated
   mercutio: and chance of problems
   up_the_irons: so it is easier to go cheap dedicated on really power efficient stuff
   mercutio: yeah small investment great long term cost versus large investment low long term cost
   up_the_irons: cuz you can pack it in the rack
   mercutio: i imagine your power / rack space isn't amazingly cheap
   up_the_irons: nope
   mercutio: probably cheaper in places like kansas
   up_the_irons: maybe i should make an "ARP Lite(tm)" service and put boxes in a shitty data center, and just sell 'em real cheap
   mercutio: heh
   
 you could do semi-dedicated
   up_the_irons: there are quite a few shitty ones really close to my own
   mercutio: with vt-d hardware passthrough for ethernet/disks
   
 err can't do passthrough for disks
   
 it needs to be controller
   
 so maybe just dedicated disk
   up_the_irons: yeah cuz you can do /dev/sda on vps #1, /dev/sdb on vps #2, etc...
   mercutio: like if you can do 4x2.5" in a blade
   
 you could do dedicated ssd per semi-dedicated
   
 and have 4 of them
   
 although what if disk fails :)
   up_the_irons: yeah disk failure is always the catch
   
 but the customer could just order 2 disks
   mercutio: yeah but then you need to be able to support 8x2.5" in a blade :)
   
 wasn't it 4x2.5" * 12 servers?
   up_the_irons: well yeah or you just can't put 4x vps in the box
   
 yeah
   mercutio: true
   
 like $80/month 2 servers per box
   
 2 hard-disks each
   up_the_irons: yeah
   
 80*2 = 160 per blade
   mercutio: dedicated ethernet
   up_the_irons: $1920 per chassis
   mercutio: you can probably stick a cheap pci-e dual port adapter if want internal network as well
   up_the_irons: not a bad scenario
   mercutio: how much are blades?
   up_the_irons: the blades come with the chassis, but u still need to add RAM and CPU
   mercutio: oh real
   up_the_irons: i think it was like $5500 for the chassis
   mercutio: so that ebay price was terrible that i found?
   
 oh that was more like ebay price :)
   
 so it's still like $1000 to $1200 for a server
   
 mostly just saving on rack space
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   up_the_irons: mercutio: so you're saying the e3 cores are 8x real cores, but half the performance of the 4x l5540 cores?
   
 wait the e3 only has 4 real cores
   mercutio: up_the_irons: err e3 is 4 real cores
   
 l5520 is 8 real cores
   
 they're similar performance
   
 err
   
 2xl5520 i mean
   
 which is that it had
   
 that's according to cpumark
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   mercutio: not real testing
   
 i've never actualyl used a l5520
   up_the_irons: ah ok
   mercutio: i just explored things a bit before.  shipping is a bitch from the US
   
 actually
   
 4711 passmark l5520 single cpu
   
 9457 passmark 1240v2
   
 7625 passmark dual e5520
   
 i think e and l 5520 are same performance
   
 passmark doesn't list dual l5520
   
 8103 passmark 1230v1
   
 so really it's more similar to the 1230
   up_the_irons: e and l are the same, yeah
   
 just different voltage
   mercutio: not in all cpus
   
 oh maybe in all cpus
   up_the_irons: oh?  thought l5520 is the low voltage version of e5520
   mercutio: it's the i5 low power versions that aren't the same
   
 but they have suffix rather than prefix
   up_the_irons: yeah for the xeon's i believe "e" and "l" are the same, just diff voltage
   mercutio: 5520 is a lot lower power than 5420 from memory
   
 they also do extended page table support
   
 e3-1240v2 will be better power consumption though
   
 from passmark dual opteron 4234 loosk good too
   
 well mostly for being similar speed to e3 but cheap
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   up_the_irons: yeah i think i have a couple 4200 cpu's around here
   mercutio: what's power usage like?
   up_the_irons: can't find anything to do with them since i used the 6200's in the newer VM hosts and I like the performance
   mercutio: ahh
   up_the_irons: i'll put the 4200's in the new backup box, yeah...
   mercutio: when trying to research 4234 found stuff about 6200
   up_the_irons: you can't beat the core count
   mercutio: it's always the way
   
 people always benchmark/discuss/talk about the higher end cpus
   up_the_irons: i mean for the price and cores, it's really nice.  lots of cores is great for virtualization.
   mercutio: and ignore the new lower cost or lower power ones
   up_the_irons: yeah exactly
   mercutio: likes there's hardly any discussion about the low power i5s
   up_the_irons: u need to find the sweet spot
   mercutio: they reduce performance
   
 but power matters too
   
 i was mostly interested in whether it'd be quieter
   
 that's even harder to determine though
   
 intel are weird atm
   
 there's e5-2687w and e5-2690 ... e5-2687w is faster
   
 but not by a lot... it's also slightly cheaper
   
 but both are real expensive
   
 good if you pay per cpu or such though i suppose
   
 for licensing
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   up_the_irons: yeah the higher end intels just blow the bank
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   amdprophet: up_the_irons: have you been training for any races? (running)
   
 I just started running, thinking about maybe training for a 10k or something
   mnathani: up_the_irons: was I your first dedicated server sale?
   
 up_the_irons: also have you considered offering SSD drives on the ARP Metal Dedicated servers? If so what price point would they be at?
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   up_the_irons: amdprophet: no races.  i messed up my lower back a year ago and haven't really been able to run since :(  (but it's getting better)
   amdprophet: darn :(
   up_the_irons: mnathani: no, the first sale was around last june or so
   
 mnathani: have not considered ssd's yet
   
 amdprophet: last race i did was a 500 yard sprint and i came in at 90 seconds
   amdprophet: damn, that's pretty impressive
   Webhostbudd: oh nice, you finally rolled out the dedi page
   hazardous: rawr
   up_the_irons: Webhostbudd: it's been there for months ;)
   brycec: --- Day changed Tue Oct 23 2012
   
 04:43 <@up_the_irons> Finally official: https://www.arpnetworks.com/dedicated
   
 months! ^
   up_the_irons: :)
   brycec: <-- Master of logs
   
 I'm more impressed by the  4-5 months of unofficial dedicated boxes
   up_the_irons: really? why? :)
   brycec: Mostly that anyone knew about it without there being a page up (unless there was a page up... unofficially ;p)
   Webhostbudd: lmao
   up_the_irons: brycec: there wasn't, but email works great for specs and quotes ;)
   hazardous: oh yeah i forgot to share this, here is a sales response i got from another host about ipv6: http://i.imgur.com/U1C5S.png
   
 enjoy the laugh
   brycec: I... uh... wha?
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   brycec: CPU down to 3C...
   
 er, wrong channel
   up_the_irons: LOL
   brycec: (unless you care about the fun of running a laptop inside a refrigerator)
   
 2C!
   
 damnit my focus-follows-mouse is being very inaccuarte
   mike-burns: Your mouse is distracted?
   brycec: No... But with this latest awesome update, the focus seems to get stuck somewhere along the way about 50% of the time
   toddf: just go cwm and be done with it ;-)