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1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 12:47:38 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Found and ordered a motherboard + CPU + RAM combo to replace the current build this very webserver is using.
   
   Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCM-F
   CPU: Intel Xeon E3 -1230 v2 (3.30 GHz)
   RAM: 16GB DDR3 (when it arrives, I will note the exact specs)
   
   
   Current setup is the following:
   
   Motherboard: Tyan Tomcat S2925 (with S2925-E v2.01 BIOS)
   CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 945 Rev. C3 (3.00 GHz)
   RAM: 8GB DDR2 (HP marked, uses Micron chips)
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 12:48:51 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     For fun, here is a comparison (the 125W TDP is actually wrong on the Phenom II; it's 95W):
     
     https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1189vs7/Intel-Xeon-E3-1230-V2-vs-AMD-Phenom-II-X4-945
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 13:11:22 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     I was just made aware that the Rev. C2 version of the AMD Phenom II X4 945 can be 125W TDP (most are 95W TDP), so that part is correct. So it does not account for the 95W Rev. C2 or C3 version of the CPU...
2. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 19-Apr-2026 21:41:21 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Finally found the reason the MariaDB 11.8 releases do not run on this quite old AMD server: the AM2/AM2+ architecture is too old. (It's missing the PCLMULQDQ instruction flag.)
   
   I went through the trouble of setting up a test server on a MiniPC (Intel NUC NUC6AYH), and it does run there. Though, I forgot to run lscpu for the instruction flags... so I searched for it online, and that NUC's CPU does indeed have the flag.
   
   I then actually compiled the source on an even older Dell Latitude D830 and executed it. Same illegal instruction (SIGILL) as on the aging server. It does not have the flag.
   
   It does run on my main laptop that has a high-end Sandy Bridge CPU, which has the flag.
   
   --
   
   From the AMD server and main laptop logs:
   
   MariaDB 11.4: InnoDB: Using generic crc32 instructions
   MariaDB 11.8: InnoDB: Using crc32 + pclmulqdq instructions
3. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 02:47:24 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Okay, MariaDB has updated config from 'medium' to 'large' settings (cribbed from MySQL 5.5 sample configs).
   
   I archived those configs for reference.
4. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 01:01:13 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Was going through the server and deleting very old versions of compiled daemons and libraries; freed up ~5GB of space on the boot drive so far.
   
   However, I found an old .tar image of the server 'www' data from September 6, 2023, taking up ~548 GiB on the www-data RAID setup. (The final one is .xz'ed, taking up ~449 GiB on the NAS.) Thought I purged it years ago, lol.
   
   There's also some old HP laptop disk image on there from 2014 that I have never removed, taking up ~109 GiB; since copied to the NAS years later.
   
   Another ~800 GiB used up there is a bunch of Teknoparrot ROMs just sitting there as well.
   
   Very old versions of MySQL sit there; no longer can use them since the move to MariaDB.
   
   There's more decade [plus]-old cruft on that setup that existed ever since the server used a 4x 250GB RAID0+1 setup in the early 2010s. Removing a lot of it would free up probably ~2TiB of space.
5. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 21:43:22 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Updated the structure of the *very* old httpd.conf file, as it was using the layout from version 2.4.33. This also makes my custom mime.types file finally obsolete.
   
   Also rectified the MariaDB update oversight, as I actually thought I did so yesterday...
6. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 13:56:09 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Updates!
   
   openssl: 1.1.1w -> 1.1.1zg
   mariadb: 11.4.7 -> 11.4.10
   
   Recompile:
   
   httpd 2.4.66 - due to external pcre2 and openssl updates
   php 7.4.33 - due to external pcre2 and openssl updates
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 13:59:40 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Somehow, one of the PHP -FPM configs wouldn't stick (I changed the listen user/group entry to what httpd is using and it was stuck on default nobody...). I had to edit it locally and not from my laptop. 🤨
7. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 16:40:29 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Updates!
   
   httpd: 2.4.62 -> 2.4.66
   
   Consistency Fixes...
   
   php 7.4.33: fpm now consistently runs on Unix sockets instead of TCP/IP:Port, meaning connections within PHP are even faster. This was mainly due to merging out-of-date configurations that I thought were up-to-date. [Was originally CGI for the longest -> FastCGI for testing -> FPM TCP/IP:Port -> FPM Unix Sockets]
   
   Other notes: MySQL/MariaDB did run on TCP/IP:Port due to Unix Sockets breaking at random historically, but that had been stabilized for at least a year.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 13-Apr-2026 23:15:20 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Forgot:
     
     apr: 1.7.4 -> 1.7.6
8. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 13:01:32 EDT Clarissa Walker
   It seems that since around Linux kernel 6.6, newer Intel wireless cards will crash at suspend/wake... that is, unless you turned off the radio of the card entirely before suspending the system. My main laptop is still using Linux 6.2 (from 2023) due to this. I previously had 6.5, but some browser couldn't open with this kernel...
   
   No, this is still not fixed.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 13:03:49 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     It was to the point that I isolated NetworkManager due to early assumptions that it was to blame. In the end, it is a years-old kernel bug.
     
     Yes, my main laptop's wireless setup is entirely manual now, and I can easily revert this.
9. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 20:43:05 EST Clarissa Walker
   We now have symmetrical upload since October 20 (known), but it may have been October 15.
   
   As a result, I have finally upped the bandwidth limit from 786KB/1MB (rest of main site) and 393KB/512KB (certain download sections) to ~5MB and ~2.5MB respectively.
   
   From there, stuff will be monitored occasionally.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 21:57:37 EST Clarissa Walker

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     I honestly forgot about the rate limit settings! It was stuck on ~375KB average.
     
     This has been fixed.
10. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 15:04:14 EST Clarissa Walker
    Finally have practically stable Live TV on Jellyfin 10.10.7! Quite recent Intel media drivers for Linux got it to that point.
    
    Other thing was Intel Core i3: 12100 -> 13100... but two pins located at the bottom-center of its socket on the board in question were quite bent. I managed to fix them perfectly, though.
11. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 14:50:54 EST Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    mariadb: 11.4.5 -> 11.4.7
    
    Cannot run 11.8.x on this server now due to SIGSEGV. A future version may run it. (26.04?)
12. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 04:12:00 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    mariadb: 11.4.4 -> 11.4.5
13. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 16:32:45 EST Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    mariadb: 11.4.3 -> 11.4.4
    
    Fixes...
    
    mariadb: tcp -> sockets
    
    Changes...
    
    php: fastcgi -> fpm (tcp) -> fpm (sockets)
    • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 17:38:08 EST Clarissa Walker

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      Going to have to recompile PHP again as to have it no longer be thread safe. Also, pcre2 should be updated.
14. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 22:47:01 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    mariadb: 11.4.2 ->11.4.3
15. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 12:02:39 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    Major Release
    mariadb: 10.11.7 -> 11.4.2
16. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 21:39:26 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    Security
    httpd: 2.4.59 -> 2.4.62
17. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 18:41:27 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    System
    Ubuntu Server: 23.10 -> 24.04 LTS
    
    Recompile
    php-7.4.33 - due to libicu change from 72 to 74 during system upgrade
18. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 15:01:58 EDT Clarissa Walker
    This server is going to get some needed security patches... probably in ~30 minutes.
    • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 15:43:01 EDT Clarissa Walker

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      Updates!
      
      Security
      httpd: 2.4.58 -> 2.4.59
      
      Other
      pcre2: master-20231204 -> 10.43
      
      Recompile
      php-7.4.33 - due to external pcre2 update
19. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 16:18:52 EST Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    mariadb: 10.11.6 -> 10.11.7
20. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 09:22:31 EST Clarissa Walker
    Clearing some VERY redundant data on the main NAS today. About 300GB so far. Ironically, it started with trying to find a historical crack of Sonic Heroes (entire game included) on the server, lol.
    
    I never run it, but the .nfo mentioning its backstory is chuckleworthy; it's why I kept it.