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Since almost the beginning of the CSM, there have been calls for a “none of the above” option, or people who have tried to run on a platform of disbanding the CSM. Neither of those things have been accepted, so it’s time to stop bringing them up. CCP created the CSM because they wanted to give players a role in development, by letting the players select representatives to serve on this focus group. As long as CCP gets some value from the program, and they repeatedly have said they do, they will continue the program.

If you don’t like me, don’t like the CSM, don’t like the current make up, don’t believe it’s actually democratic, think its useless, think its just a way for nullsec to dominate the game, think its responsible for all the bad things that happen in EVE every day, are upset that you lost or can’t win a seat, there is one thing you can do that will directly address all your concerns - don’t participate. Don’t run, don’t vote.

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Man, it’s hilarious watching people talking to their alts in here. And then watching them try to claim I’m spamming to get my stuff hidden.

Pro-tip. You’re generally not going to win if you’re trying to use the mods against a CSM member in a CSM related post, lol.

Just wanted to chime in to say I’m going to clean up the off-topic posts. I strongly encourage and embrace meaningful discourse and discussions, especially as it pertains to the CSM. However, low-effort troll posts will not be tolerated. You may think it’s fun, but what it actually does is stifle voices that I personally would be glad to hear from.

As a player I was proud to be on CSM 6 & 7, and running the CSM is a task I’m very honored to have. The amount of time and dedication both the CSM and CCP put into this venture is something unmatched in gaming. It is, of course, not our only way to communicate with players - though it’s a unique body that provides tremendous value. If you don’t believe that to be the case, I’m here as a resource to answer any and all questions to demonstrate otherwise.

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I’m not even authorized for datacenter access.

How time flies! CSM 17 elections are just around the corner!!

We’ve made a few key changes to the election this year - check out everything you need to know in this CSM 17 devblog. Feel free to discuss CSM 17 and any questions or comments you have below.

Hmm, looking back at my notes I don’t think we actually managed a full start!

We knew we could (we thought we could) if we disabled ESI to allow for a softer startup but I don’t think we went forward with that test.

sept 28, 2020 - * TQ failover testing on Intel28 - no luck - still fails after manual soft numa
sept 23, 2020 - * TQ Failover to Intel 28 - failure

AMD’s approach of a high number of cores doesn’t fit well with Microsoft’s licensing of SQL Server per core. I would love for Microsoft to measure volume, throughput, usage for licensing purposes somehow differently than just counting the cores.

That would be a massive undertaking; migrating all tables, views, functions, and stored procedures from T-SQL to PL/pgSQL, along with all monitoring, metrics, and institutional knowledge; and would therefore have to entail massive benefits.

Did we ever get EVE started on that 28C Intel box?

All production hardware is transferred to use for test servers for many years.

Probably never.

No.

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I’ve not done any real in-depth checking into which is more stable.

They both seem fairly reliable though and I’d guess instability comes more from us changing things and bugs being fixed/introduced than actual underlining platform issues.

It’s difficult to baseline and compare things over time when the code base changes daily

we’re indeed heavily invested in stored procs - not to mention a few enterprise edition features of MSSQL - in particular table partitions for swapping out entire blocks of data for deletes.

Dev Teams are and have been using other database tech for their features for some years now however, so we’re far from ONLY using MS SQL.

There’s at least CosmosDB/PostGres and a few other cloud based managed DB services being used.

Horses for courses and such

Our next blog will focus on the software side, but you are right, it is Windows 2019 and it’s Standard.

I don’t think the DC version gives us anything unless its being used as a hypervisor host.

Next blog will focus on the software side of the database config with all that fun stuff.

Peak is around 15,000 while our average is around 8k.

We had another amd dual socket 8core cpu box in to play with but it ended up having weird hba issues so we had to rule it out.

There was also a single socket 28 core Intel box we tested - at the time EVE’s code base overran it mercilessly on cold starts. We could barely get the cluster started

Before taking a picture of that they would have to spend HOURS cleaning off all the fingerprints from the Button.

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I believe some of the nodes are up for grabs at the Fanfest Charity Silent Auction this year!