3 ms·

FWIW, if your Free Tier Oracle service seems to go "unused"--which isn't defined as far as I can tell, and the one I use as a DNS server was dinged for being "u

FWIW, if your Free Tier Oracle service seems to go "unused"--which isn't defined as far as I can tell, and the one I use as a DNS server was dinged for being "unused"--you run the risk of it being shut down and you have to restart it, unless you upgrade to a pay-as-you-go account. This is a new thing as of last week, I think. Also, Oracle Cloud's management interface is best described as "let's make this as complicated as AWS, but with more 'Enterprise-y' features, but somehow worse in every possible way." That said, I can't fault Oracle for being Oracle. I knew what I was getting myself into. And their "Always Free" tier is still free. And it does work well enough for my purposes.

extra88 4y ago
Here's what Oracle says: Reclamation of Idle Compute Instances Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true: * CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 10% * Network utilization is less than 10% * Memory utilization is less than 10% (applies to A1 shapes only) https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm#compute__idleinstances https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
- extra88 4y ago
  I need a Debian package that's a like a "mouse jiggler" for the CPU, a process that will automatically use enough CPU to satisfy Oracle.
  - Arnavion 4y ago
    Just run a `while :; do :; done` shell script under `nice` (to have lower priority than everything else) and then under `cpulimit` (to have an upper bound on CPU usage), or in a cgroup.
- sva_ 4y ago
  Well, it was a good month with it then, I guess. My ArchArm box isn't really utilized that much. edit: stress --vm-bytes $(awk '/MemAvailable/{printf "%d\n", $2 \* 0.12;}' < /proc/meminfo)k --vm-keep -m 1 And limit CPU use using cpulimit.
  - 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
    Set up a tor relay, you'll be helping others while making sure that Oracle does not your consider your network "underutilized". ORPort 9001 Nickname foobar AccountingMax 512 GB AccountingStart week 1 00:00 DirPort 9030 ExitPolicy reject *:* They give you 10 TiB of data transfer per month, this will make sure tor never goes above 4 TiB tops.
    - sva_ 4y ago
      Great idea actually, didn't even think of that.
- deltarholamda 4y ago
  Thanks for that. I gave up too quickly I guess. It would have been helpful if their email warning me included a link to that. I guess even Oracle is staring down the barrel of IPv4 infertility.

extra88 4y ago

Here's what Oracle says: Reclamation of Idle Compute Instances Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true: * CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 10% * Network utilization is less than 10% * Memory utilization is less than 10% (applies to A1 shapes only) https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm#compute__idleinstances https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...

extra88 4y ago
I need a Debian package that's a like a "mouse jiggler" for the CPU, a process that will automatically use enough CPU to satisfy Oracle.
- Arnavion 4y ago
  Just run a `while :; do :; done` shell script under `nice` (to have lower priority than everything else) and then under `cpulimit` (to have an upper bound on CPU usage), or in a cgroup.
sva_ 4y ago
Well, it was a good month with it then, I guess. My ArchArm box isn't really utilized that much. edit: stress --vm-bytes $(awk '/MemAvailable/{printf "%d\n", $2 \* 0.12;}' < /proc/meminfo)k --vm-keep -m 1 And limit CPU use using cpulimit.
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
  Set up a tor relay, you'll be helping others while making sure that Oracle does not your consider your network "underutilized". ORPort 9001 Nickname foobar AccountingMax 512 GB AccountingStart week 1 00:00 DirPort 9030 ExitPolicy reject *:* They give you 10 TiB of data transfer per month, this will make sure tor never goes above 4 TiB tops.
  - sva_ 4y ago
    Great idea actually, didn't even think of that.
deltarholamda 4y ago
Thanks for that. I gave up too quickly I guess. It would have been helpful if their email warning me included a link to that. I guess even Oracle is staring down the barrel of IPv4 infertility.