My reflex of assuming our servers need ever-growing amounts of RAM
13 points by davidklassen
13 points by davidklassen
Sadly, this webpage considers my normal browser "outdated" (my safari is very up to date thank you), my other browser is vivaldi and also blocked, archive.org is blocked and ghostarchive is blocked and archive.is is also blocked, so the thoughts of the author will forever elude me.
Though presuming from the title, the amount of RAM in a server is IMO still the important metric. Rarely do I run into CPU starvation on my workloads (for about 6TB of traffic a month), but I always have to fight the ever growing need for more RAM in the many many services that need to execute for my stuff (elasticsearch is the worst at it, followed generally by any java based application and then .NET and then the remainder).
You didn't miss much, the post was a long winded way of saying, "I almost over-provisioned a mail server because I forgot to check the actual memory usage of the old one first."
I was starting to wonder if it was me that noticed the same point was repeated like 4 times. Felt like reading an smaller LM's reasoning output.
I don't think it's nice to compare someone's personal blog to that? I wouldn't want to fear getting compared to an llm just because my blog once had something interesting and some time later my personal ramblings got submitted.
Plus firefox and safari on macos are fine for me. I bet you're just IP blocked, welcome to the sad reality of modern day Anti-Scraper wars, you're sadly a casualty. Oh and before someone shouts: I've worked in a lab before - if someone decides all content of all faculties is now gated behind some bespoke WAF, that is what happens, end of story.
The bigger question is why your mail server runs on dedicated hardware with multiple gigabytes of RAM to begin with.
Hm.. the page opens fine for me both in safari and chrome, but this blog might be too aggressive about what it thinks is a "bot". This post is mainly about his mail server setup and workloads that haven't changed in years. My experience is similar, my personal server uses about 600MB of 4GB, and two thirds of that is rspamd. Of course, java applications udner load are a different story.