thanks, I’ll look into it. Much appreciated

I understand your view and sympathize deeply but there is a lot wrong in the world today and if I have to divert energy somewhere to try and change something, Patreon’s 10/90 split is at the bottom of the list for me at the moment. Regular working class people aren’t getting that good of a deal at the jobs they work at. I’m not even talking 90/10, just getting their .01% of the profits in a 1000 person org for their contribution would probably be life changing.

You are right but our frames of reference are different.

I’ve never looked into adding GitHub releases to FreshRSS. Any tips for getting that set up? Is it pretty straight forward?

I wouldn’t say these services are nothing. Are they worth 10%? Eh.

A 90/10 split for content creators who otherwise wouldn’t know how to build and operate their own platform doesn’t sound like a terrible deal. It’s not amazing but if there were better options, Patreon may not be so popular.

Edit: I want to clarify. Patreon is a for profit company who has apparently tried raising prices already and back tracked. Eventually, Patreon will try and squeeze out more profit from the creators and the user base will be big enough that Patreon will have the leverage to do so; we’ve all seen it before. I’m not saying Patreon is a good company, I’m not saying they won’t be dicks in the future, I’m not saying the system as it is, is good. I’m only saying 10% isn’t a bad deal when so many other options are worse (ex. Apple taking 30%)

Fair enough

What’s wrong with Patreon? They advertise a 10% fee. It may be a little more complicated than that but 10% seems pretty reasonable considering the services they offer.

TIL. Thanks for the information

I’m currently not in a situation where swap is being used so I think my system is doing fine right now. I’m not against swap, I get it’s better to have it than not but my intention was to figure out how close is my system getting to using swap. If it went from not using swap at all to using it constantly, I’d probably want to upgrade my ram, right? If nothing else just to avoid system slow downs and unneeded wear on my SSD

From what I can tell, my system isn’t currently using swap at all but it does have 8GB of available swap if needed.

To make sure I’m following what you are saying, if I upgraded my system to 64GB and changed nothing else, and let’s assume ZFS didn’t trying caching more stuff, would there still be a potential for my system to use swap just because the system wanted to even if it wasn’t memory constrained?

Came across some more info that you might find interesting. If true, htop is ignoring the cache used by ZFS but accounting for everything else.

link

Assuming the info in this link is correct, ZFS is using ~20GB for caching which makes htop’s ~8GB of in use memory make sense when compared with the results from cat /proc/meminfo. This is great news.

My results after running cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats:

c                               4    19268150979
c_min                           4    1026222848
c_max                           4    31765389312
size                            4    19251112856

Thank you for the detailed explanation

You’re an angel. I don’t know what the fuck htop is doing showing 8GB in use Based on another user comment in this thread, htop is showing a misleading number. For anyone else who comes across this, this is what I have. This makes the situation seem a little more grim. I have ~2GB free, ~28GB in use , and of that ~28GB only ~3GB is cache that can be closed. For reference, I’m using ZFS and roughly 27 docker containers. It doesn’t seem like there is much room for future services to selfhost.

MemTotal:           30.5838      GB
MemFree:            1.85291      GB
MemAvailable:       4.63831      GB
Buffers:            0.00760269   GB
Cached:             3.05407      GB

That’s pretty much where I’m at on this. As far as I’m concerned, if my system touches SWAP at all, it’s run out of memory. At this point, I’m hoping to figure out what percent of the memory in use is unimportant cache that can be closed vs important files that process need to function.

Is there a good way to tell what percent of RAM in use is used by less important caching of files that could be closed without any adverse effects vs files that if closed, the whole app stops functioning?

Basically, I’m hoping htop isn’t broken and is reporting I have 8GB of important showstopping files open and everything else is cache that is unimportant/closable without the need to touch SWAP.

This is why I’d like to know what tool shows the most useful number. If I only have 4GB out of 30GB left, is that 26GB difference mostly important processes or mostly closable cache? Like, is htop borked and not showing me useful info or is it saying 8GB of the 26GB used is important showstopping stuff?

Fuck. This is a bad time to be running low on memory

I didn’t realize it was that old. Whoever is maintaining it is doing a good job making it look modern

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Docker has been the deployment method of choice…

Nice 😎

I’m not attached to either, I’ve seen a lot of people recommend them. Debian has gotten more than a few recommendations in this thread, so I’m checking out PikaOS now.

The biggest problem you are going to have is the NVIDIA graphics card. As long as you overcome the hurdle of installing those drivers, any of the popular desktop OSs should be fine. Some people seem to get them going no problem but for others, it’s a show stopper. The OSs that have the option for installing the drivers during installation are nice for that reason.

As much as I didn’t want to, it’s really seeming like I’m going to need to pick a few a test them out…

Yeah. Unfortunately that’s going to be the best way to learn what you want from your OS. It’s equally frustrating and rewarding.

Is it common practice to use one FS across all drives? Or would ZFS work well enough on its own for the pool and use a different FS for the OS/storage drives?

Depends on the environment, really; there’s no wrong answer. ZFS will work fine for its own pool. I would say a FS with snapshotting and rollback capabilities are almost a requirement for Arch based/rolling release distros. You never know when an update might break something.

I’ve been testing out ZFS on my OS drive for my personal server and it’s probably overkill because all the important stuff is on the ZFS pool with backups. My OS drive could shit the bed at any moment and I could switch it out with anything else because of that pool.