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  1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 16:47:51 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Okay, ordered an SK Hynix SC311 128GB 2.5" SATA SSD for the replacement board.

    This actually delays the migration by about a week. It may also need a firmware update - specifically, a may not occasionally boot scenario.

    I also had an idea: relocating the database to another drive... again. I did this last time and it was a success, but it was with 2x 80GB IDE drives as a dm-integrity RAID 1 test.

    The database is on the same drive setup as the rest of the webserver data... which is not the system drive.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  2. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 18:48:20 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    And... it also seems that I finally managed to get the board to keep its BIOS settings.

    That literally took over an hour to solve that.

    It originally started with it not responding with the power button, then eventually I walked off to retrieve something (over two minutes), then tried again and realized it powered on...

    Set the time and date, exit, power off the board then the PSU... wait ~2 minutes, power on the PSU, then the board. Forgot its settings.

    Repeat this ad-nauseam between testing RAM for errors and CPU temp. Oh, and the display would glitch up at times. May have to retire that particular old Sony SDM-HS94P monitor.

    Earlier, I disabled the BMC by jumper; the BMC was still zombie-enabled, but now the BIOS would no longer acknowledge it. Odd.

    Eventually jumpered the Chassis Intrusion setting and then used the Set User Default settings in BIOS. From there, BMC was no longer running...

    The board is in standby; it needs a SATA drive before the system migration.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  3. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 16:03:22 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Yes, I have actually brought CPU temps down nearly 20° Celsius because the original thermal paste was bone dry.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  4. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 16:01:47 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    After the CPU repaste: http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/url/54
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink

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  5. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 16:01:06 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Before the CPU repaste: http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/url/54
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink

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  6. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 13:16:13 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Corrections:
    open 'case' -> test bench
    Xeon E3-1270 -> Xeon E3-1270 v2

    Also, max temp hit 72° C this time.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  7. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 13:11:50 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Ran a memtest, left for ~15 minutes, returned and saw that the CPU hits ~70° C on load... and that's on an open 'case'. Will repaste the CPU, but I may replace it with a Xeon E3-1270 at some point anyway.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  8. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 13:00:28 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    The board works, though its IPMI is also very old and insecure. [Version 1.86! Latest official is 3.52 (was 3.38 but someone YOLO'd and is official now), though 3.64 exists.]

    Since I'm not going to bother updating it like I did with the OPNSense board, I'll disable it on the board with the jumper settings instead for now.

    Still haven't disabled it on the OPNSense board yet... http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/url/54
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink

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  9. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 11:33:54 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    The replacement server motherboard has arrived. I haven't tested it just yet, however.

    Going to have to obtain a SATA drive, though. The board can also use a SATA DOM (Disk-On-Module), and those are usually of industrial spec.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  10. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2026 21:22:55 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Found out the other old drive CD image is questionable as well. Going to have to re-download it. So both 2021-era driver CD image downloads have mismatched checksums...
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  11. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2026 20:14:35 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Forgot to mention: found one questionable file (possibly slightly corrupt). It was a driver CD image. Moved that one to 'questionable'.

    One BCM/IPMI firmware was repacked and a few third-party source files were loose, so I repacked them into RAR files.

    There actually was one official BMC/IPMI .zip file that was packed a little over a week before the known good checksum one, so it was moved to 'old'. The files themselves matched the ones in the known good one, too.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  12. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2026 19:56:14 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Well, this future upgrade had me going through my archived stuff regarding the Supermicro X9SCM-F mainboard, since the OPNSense firewall uses one. I should turn off the IPMI/BMC on that, since I have not used it in over five years... It's not even hooked up, either. It merely adds ~2 minutes of boot time to the entire process...

    Anyway, found some missing BMC firmware and one newer BMC firmware on the Internet. I am also obtaining the rest of the driver CDs, since an earlier attempt was done when I didn't even have enough space in general.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  13. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 13:11:22 EDT Clarissa Walker 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...
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  14. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 12:48:51 EDT Clarissa Walker 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
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink

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      PassMark Software - CPU Benchmarks
      PassMark Software - CPU Benchmarks - Over 1 million CPUs and 1,000 models benchmarked and compared in graph form, updated daily!
  15. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 12:47:38 EDT Clarissa Walker 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)
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  16. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 19-Apr-2026 21:41:21 EDT Clarissa Walker 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
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  17. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 02:47:24 EDT Clarissa Walker 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.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  18. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 01:01:13 EDT Clarissa Walker 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.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  19. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 21:43:22 EDT Clarissa Walker 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...
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
  20. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 13:59:40 EDT Clarissa Walker 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. 🤨
    In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
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Clarissa Walker

Clarissa Walker

Detroit, MI

http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info

Hobbyist computer tweaker/repairperson, webmistress, procrastinator. Does things on my own time. Also known as CW Cyrix.

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