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On 2/29/20 11:13 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Keep in mind that rpi are not the only cheap, capable arm hardware out |
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> there. |
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> I am using a number of odroid devices, including an N2 with a gentoo |
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> based kernel and a gentoo aarch64 userland. Its used for lxc containers |
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> for asterisk, dns, webdav, mail, calendaring and web running on the N2 |
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> backed by an Odroid HC2 moosefs cluster (though I am using an intel |
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> powered Odroid H2 for the master). |
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> Its all working rather well now the initial install/config stages are |
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> over. Part of the gain over the pi's is the use of eMMC storage over |
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> sdcards - almost 5 times faster in my tests. The 4G of ram has proven |
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> quite adequate so far - even the asterisk latency is better than my |
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> previous QEMU/KVM on intel setup. |
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> I have currently have rpi 1B, 3B and a zero and while the specs for the |
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> rpi4 are better ... its not the best out there. |
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> BillK |
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I am aware of other devices but the RPi (afaict) is the only one sold |
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within the country and not subject to import duty/fees/taxes and the |
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related shipping delays because of those. :( |
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Dan |
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