[DGD] Uninterruptible Power Supply

[Raymond Jennings]

Actually I got the UPS becuase I got tired of our house circuits constantly
blowing.

Add to that a crazy cat lady turning into a BRFH, staying in the room with
the breaker box and constantly screwing with the switches just to piss off
the whole house (especially me), and you have a very hostile power
situation...literally, because this person has me on their vendetta list
and would love to pave the road I take to go to hell.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com>
wrote:

> I totally understand. that's why I pointed out that a UPS allows you to
> save before everything just dies. My landlord showed up to fix something
> the other day and started flipping brakers. first I knew of it was when
> my server and everything in my room just died. left me wanting for a
> UPS, but also most residential electric companies provide no guarantees
> about uptime. Our power goes out from time to time. I know I'm not going
> to stay running, but I'd at least like to know so I can shutdown and do
> it cleanly.
> On 12/22/2016 11:05 AM, bart at wotf.org wrote:
> > Indeed, but there is a huge difference between a planned reboot and an
> > unplanned one.
> >
> > When aiming for a persistent mud like both Shentino and me are doing, the
> > 'uptime' of the mud is independent of the uptime of your machine, as you
> can
> > continue from a statedump, but that does require being able to make that
> > statedump before rebooting the machine. Planned reboots are no problem
> for
> > that, unplanned reboots however can be quite a problem, resulting in
> restoring
> > the mud to an older state then it was in when the reboot happened (and
> hence,
> > causing losses to players which were online at that time)
> >
> > So while you are right about long uptimes of a system, this actually
> doesn't
> > apply as such to the uptime of a dgd based persistent mud.
> >
> > aidil at Way of the Force: [43] /cmd/arch> uptime -v
> > It is 16:58:01, total virtual uptime 8 years 103d10:57, 2 players.
> > The system was first started 8 years 128d18:27 ago.
> > The last restore was on dec 21 21:35.
> > Memory: 291377392 bytes used, 298074216 bytes allocated.
> >
> > So that is 8 1/3 years 'virtual' uptime for the mud, as you can see, I
> lost
> > almost 25 days of uptime over those 8 1/3 years due to things like
> having to
> > restore from a slightly older statedump or downtime of the server, or
> the mud
> > not running due to being busy with an upgrade of the hardware or
> operating system.
> >
> > Bart.
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:33:30 -0500, Littlefield, Tyler wrote
> >> Long uptimes are something that people gloat and cheer about for all
> >> the wrong reasons. a UPS isn't to allow you to stay up (since if
> >> your power is down, chances are internet will be too), but to allow
> >> you to properly save data before you drop it on the floor. A few
> >> years uptime is generally not a great idea since it means kernels
> >> haven't been updated, you haven't updated main libs which some
> >> services run on (and it's really realy hard to restart everything
> >> once you update and know for sure they're all restarted), etc. I
> >> take every server down once every 2 weeks or so, unless there's a
> >> big security update. BSD has hell with OpenSSL. Usually it's just a
> >> quick reboot and there we are again, up and running. On 12/22/2016
> >> 1:06 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> >>> I just got my desktop (and thus the server processes hosted on it)
> hooked
> >>> up to a UPS...and I now have the great rich feeling of being immune to
> >>> brownouts.
> >>>
> >>> Do any of you guys use a UPS to keep uptime going?
> >>>
> >>> Both commercial and hobbyist usages count.
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> >> Ty
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