Recent content by BloodyIron

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    How to set Swappiness permanent to 0 on Proxmox 9

    Swap always exists on disk in some way. A VM's disk storage is literally on a disk somewhere, whether it's a NAS, SAN, Ceph cluster, or even local LVM. All of that storage is backed by SSD, HDD, NVMe, or some sort of physical medium, because that is where your permanent storage is kept. Windows...
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    How to set Swappiness permanent to 0 on Proxmox 9

    In my experience I have found disk (partition?) based swapping to be less than ideal. I don't mean in a performance perspective, more a systems administration perspective. I've generally converted all my systems that were partition/disk to file-on-disk swap method instead. Consider the...
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    How to set Swappiness permanent to 0 on Proxmox 9

    In my exhaustive testing over the decades, both Windows and Linux does not reliably swap _out_ data back into RAM. This is one of the important details why I not only monitor for any usage of swap at all on anything I care about (and alert if enough swap is used, >10%), I also have periodic swap...
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    How to set Swappiness permanent to 0 on Proxmox 9

    The article, as well as the points made in this thread, clearly spell out the performance and hardware wear costs to using swap day to day. I don't comprehend how exactly this is missed when the article very easily spells this out. There's literally a section titled "Example numbers...
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    How to set Swappiness permanent to 0 on Proxmox 9

    People remember things through repetition, and referencing earlier aspects of the same article are done for the sake of explanation. And yes I know ZRAM was mentioned, that does not invalidate what I speak to, nor what the article outlines.
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    How to set Swappiness permanent to 0 on Proxmox 9

    There are lots of reasons you don't want to use swap day to day, and that it should be used as a last-resort available resource. I actually wrote an article on the matter: https://it.lanified.com/Articles/Youre-Using-Swap-Memory-Incorrectly But in the case of a PVE node, the fact is that all...
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    PBS Task history creating "bad" files at times

    I had to interact with the files for auditing and forensic purposes. Yes, not often, but that's generally the point of those files, for humans to retrieve/interact with when warranted. I can appreciate how long it takes to make a change like this is as long as a piece of string, but my...
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    PBS Task history creating "bad" files at times

    Yeah I'm going to straight up disagree here. 1. If you think "UPID:redacted:000289CB:3BEF2DE3:000003B1:64B24022:backup:Redacted/x3act-182:root@pam:" is "better" human readability, you need to revisit how you think humans read text. That's an extremely long string of text and the problematic...
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    PBS Task history creating "bad" files at times

    In my interpretation of the question "why is PBS using these characters" (paraphrase) it's less that Linux "can" do this, and more about "what is the actual benefit of using these characters vs not using them at all when PBS makes/interacts with these files?". To me, I don't see an upside to...
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    [SOLVED] Task log retention

    PBS adding additional logging capabilities is neat, I didn't realise that! Thanks for adding that! That being said, I do think some aspects of logging consistency, length, etc, could/should be improved without relying on PBS. HOWEVER I am also a fan of PBS adding even more logging capabilities...
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    PVE v9.1 question, fabrics can see resources + Infiniband???

    So I just read the v9.1 release notes, and I saw "Fabrics are now part of the resource tree and report routes, neighbors, and interfaces" in the SDN section. Now, I'm currently working on an infra overhaul project going from 1gig ethernet to 56gig either Ifiniband or IB in ETH mode. Anyways...
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    Mark found message as spam via webGUI?

    Yup. The fact that it still has history and markers indicates there still is information in PMG to process, even if it isn't the full E-Mail message itself.
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    Mark found message as spam via webGUI?

    I don't see how that gives me what I was speaking to at all. I'm talking about going back through message log history, which clearly exists in PMG, and marking said content as "actually spam" (or equivalent) so that future spam analysis can be more accurate. This is more of a manual influence...
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    clamav-freshclam not configured to start on boot

    I have a fresh install of Proxmox Mail Gateway that's a few weeks old now. And the service/daemon "clamav-freshclam" is NOT set to start automatically. This seems like an undesirable state of things, so I'm going to configure it to auto start. But does anyone know why it is like this?