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20 Apr

CSM 17 Elections - Announcement

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Noble Citizens of New Eden,

It is once again the time of year when we set out to assemble the next Council of Stellar Management, which will closely collaborate with CCP Games in the ongoing development of EVE Online. The democratic elections we are about to embark on are a unique tool within the gaming industry, providing unparalleled access to developers and embodying the tremendous value we see in shaping the future of the game hand-in-hand with the players who have shaped the world and history of EVE into what it is today. We cannot express enough how deeply appreciative we are for the dedication and passion the EVE community has demonstrated in the game’s nearly nineteen years, and for every invaluable player who is ready and willing to offer their time and work with us to continue improving the world’s largest living work of science-fiction!

Though we unfortunately were not able to welcome the council to Reykjavik this term for the yearly CSM sum...

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CSM 17 Elections - Announcement

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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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

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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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.

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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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.

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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Probably never.

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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No.

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Strategic Cruiser 1v1 Proving Grounds action

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Strategic Capsuleers,

The Abyssal Proving Grounds are opening once more, and this time 1v1 strategic cruiser combat is the name of the game.

Running for 24 hours from 23 - 24 April, this Proving Grounds clash asks you go head-to-head and flex your combat skills. It’s also the perfect chance to get a feel for a newly revamped classic hull.

As part of the Road to Fanfest updates, the beloved, once mighty Proteus cruiser has been given a boost to its power and capacity, updating its performance to meet the needs of modern pilots. With that in mind, the next Abyssal Proving Grounds event will focus on 1v... Read more

Strategic Cruiser 1v1 Proving Grounds action

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Strategic Capsuleers,

The Abyssal Proving Grounds are opening once more, and this time 1v1 strategic cruiser combat is the name of the game.

Running for 24 hours from 23 - 24 April, this Proving Grounds clash asks you go head-to-head and flex your combat skills. It’s also the perfect chance to get a feel for a newly revamped classic hull.

As part of the Road to Fanfest updates, the beloved, once mighty Proteus cruiser has been given a boost to its power and capacity, updating its performance to meet the needs of modern pilots. With that in mind, the next Abyssal Proving Grounds event will focus on 1v1 action for strategic cruisers, includi...

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A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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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

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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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

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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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.

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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


19 Apr

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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

A History of EVE Database Server Hardware

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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 :slight_smile:




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