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Haven't had Windows freeze on me for ages. I had a frozen linux server that ran out of RAM yesterday.

by W3zzy 2mo ago

LtWorf 2mo ago
Use a windows server then :D
- W3zzy 2mo ago
  Nah, I'm not complaining. I love the freedom of Linux. I'm fairly new at the game so today I'll be teaching myself how not to mess up like this again.
mtgh2s 2mo ago
edit: I meant that regularly hitting OOM on a production server is usually more of a provisioning/resource-management issue. Obviously, how the OS handles OOM once it happens is still its responsibility. Running out of memory on a linux server sounds more like a skill issue than something comparable to how a desktop OS should behave :\
- W3zzy 2mo ago
  Could be. I'm new to the game. Started homelabbing a year ad a half ago. Thing is that I never know this could happen. As a Windows user I'm used to a system that does stuff in the background without knowing how it works. My Linux VM's can be broken because I'm in charge and I'm a noob. I kind of love it. I've learned so much from troubleshooting.
ASalazarMX 2mo ago
> I had a frozen linux server that ran out of RAM yesterday This has so many variables that it's practically useless as a data point. We have a few Ubuntu VMs running complex business web applications and their Postgres database on only 4 GB or RAM and 20-50 GB of storage, no swap space. Ocassional high load, but Zero OOM problems for many years. We could upgrade the RAM, but we were stingy when we created them, and it has worked well so far, so why waste resources? Incidentally, using no swap was a deliberate choice, as it would slow things down too much. We preferred to see and correct any memory/OOM issues beforehand, but fortunately we had none.
- W3zzy 2mo ago
  True. It's just a tiny Lenovo that I've repurposed as a homelab and that is punching above it's weight with to many applications I suppose. Either way the logs point to RAM issues but it could be my incompetence.

Haven't had Windows freeze on me for ages. I had a frozen linux server that ran out of RAM yesterday.

by W3zzy 2mo ago

Haven't had Windows freeze on me for ages. I had a frozen linux server that ran out of RAM yesterday.

LtWorf 2mo ago

Use a windows server then :D

W3zzy 2mo ago
Nah, I'm not complaining. I love the freedom of Linux. I'm fairly new at the game so today I'll be teaching myself how not to mess up like this again.

mtgh2s 2mo ago

edit: I meant that regularly hitting OOM on a production server is usually more of a provisioning/resource-management issue. Obviously, how the OS handles OOM once it happens is still its responsibility. Running out of memory on a linux server sounds more like a skill issue than something comparable to how a desktop OS should behave :\

W3zzy 2mo ago
Could be. I'm new to the game. Started homelabbing a year ad a half ago. Thing is that I never know this could happen. As a Windows user I'm used to a system that does stuff in the background without knowing how it works. My Linux VM's can be broken because I'm in charge and I'm a noob. I kind of love it. I've learned so much from troubleshooting.

ASalazarMX 2mo ago

> I had a frozen linux server that ran out of RAM yesterday This has so many variables that it's practically useless as a data point. We have a few Ubuntu VMs running complex business web applications and their Postgres database on only 4 GB or RAM and 20-50 GB of storage, no swap space. Ocassional high load, but Zero OOM problems for many years. We could upgrade the RAM, but we were stingy when we created them, and it has worked well so far, so why waste resources? Incidentally, using no swap was a deliberate choice, as it would slow things down too much. We preferred to see and correct any memory/OOM issues beforehand, but fortunately we had none.

W3zzy 2mo ago
True. It's just a tiny Lenovo that I've repurposed as a homelab and that is punching above it's weight with to many applications I suppose. Either way the logs point to RAM issues but it could be my incompetence.