My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory

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I've bought a secondhand HP DL380p Gen8 server and I think it's awesome.This machine has dual-processors, with each CPU having 10 physical cores and two threads per core, for a grand total of 20 cores / 40 threads for the entire machine. It's also equiped with 128 GB or memory.Laughs in htopI bought this machine because I wanted to have a dedicated server on which I run my home lab environment. This is the box on which I will try out new software, run experiments, test ideas and so on.In this article I'd like to share some information about this machine and my experiences with it. Let's start with an overview of the specifications.HP DL380p Gen8 SpecificationsPartDescriptionForm factor19" 2U rackmountProcessor2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHzRAM128 GB DDR3 (16 x 8GB)Onboard LAN4 x Broadcom 1 Gigabit (Copper)RAID ControllerHP P420iStorage8 x 2.5" SAS/SATA slots (no media)PSU1 x 750 WattPower usageabout  96 Watt idleKVMHP iLO 4 with HTML5 consoleCostI've bought this server f…