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Re: [Arm-dev] Using zram-swap
by Mark Verlinde 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

Being the hidden source of this discussion it's only fair to try to explain the origin. ;) First objective was to get rid of the swap partition: - we do not know upfront the amount of ram and the appropriate swap size for a particular SBC/system - being a hardware guy it does not make sense to me to provide a sap partition while in realty data is written all over the medium (SD card) to level out wear. NOTE this is from my low level hardware perspective there may be compelling arguments from a (high level) system perspective. And yes the most commly offerd 1G is a little comes a little to short for us: We would love to offer a mail-server with antivirus capabilities utilizing Rspamd and ClamAV, and unfortunately CalmAV has a memory foot print of about 650 MB. You may argue this is not feasible. My vredo is you can't be sure before you tried and and squeeze every drop of performance out of out out ar boards. That's why compressed swap-space in memory came up the table. Reading on it got me convinced it's a solution wort to persuit and we are moving to it until proven faulty. here the kickstart files we currently using to make images: https://github.com/markVnl/nethserver-createimg/tree/ks_wip/ks Would love to benchmark; ie craft a test to get some numbers on the table Unfortunaly my knowlage comes to sort to provode this. What can say is my compile time of big demanding packages on a odroid HC1 drop about 20-25%; especially "linking" speeds up remarkable! How can we craft a test? -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Afzender: Robert Moskowitz<rgm(a)htt-consult.com> Verstuurd: Vrijdag 12 Oktober 2018 19:36 Aan: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware <arm-dev(a)centos.org>; Fred Gleason <fredg(a)paravelsystems.com> Onderwerp: Re: [Arm-dev] Using zram-swap On 10/12/18 1:24 PM, Fred Gleason wrote: On Oct 12, 2018, at 13:15, Gordan Bobic <gordan(a)redsleeve.org <mailto:gordan@redsleeve.org>> wrote: It depends on what you are running on that system. If you have 1GB of RAM and want to run a desktop environment web browser, that'll go pretty poorly without swap. So how does putting swap on RAM help that situation? You’re not increasing the overall memory space by doing so, but merely partitioning it into two different buckets (while also adding the complexity and performance overhead of accessing the part that is now ‘swap’). See Gordon's earlier comment on Firefox's bad memory allocation. Zram is a big help there; I see this on my F29 system. # free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1022148 655520 107204 22284 259424 327636 Swap: 487304 253952 233352 # zramctl NAME ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT /dev/zram0 lz4 475.9M 246.4M 109.1M 114.2M 2 [SWAP] My mail server can be all over the place on memory and swap usage (it uses real swap file on sata) depending on what all the scanning software is doing and who is using roundcubemail. So YMMV, and this should not hurt if your system does not need to swap. # free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 2060396 189332 1189972 26432 681092 1766392 Swap: 982420 0 982420 # zramctl NAME ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT /dev/zram0 lz4 959.4M 4K 64B 4K 2 <swap> I may switch this setup to a Cubeboard2 (1GB mem) from the Cubietruck. I have a number of C2 and only a couple CT, so if it does not need the memory... Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | -- Cicero | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev(a)centos.org <mailto:Arm-dev@centos.org> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev <https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev> _______________________________________________ Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev(a)centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev

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Using zram-swap
by Robert Moskowitz 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

I have very recently learned about zram-swap. Fedora-29-arm is using it. It supposedly makes a considerable difference even over HD swap. Since many (potential) users of Centos-arm do not have a ready HD, perhaps we can switch the image from a physical partition to zram? Or at least instructions to change to this on the wiki. Perhaps target the 7.6 image? (is there any information as to when 7.6 may be available?) thanks

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ffmpeg for CentOS 7 armv7hl
by arm_ml＠rirasoft.de 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

Hello I search for ffmpeg for CentOS 7 ARM and can't find anything. Only for Fedora. But all RPMs from Fedora I tried have missing dependency. I want to build a converter for my Car-Audio-Player that only accept MP3 and I have over 2TB of FLAC. Thanks Andreas

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Arm Development Using QEMU
by karthi mohanraj 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

Hi Marcin & Johnny, Thanks for the reply. My requirement is to setup a VM with aarch64(64 bit arm architecture) on x86_64 host. I have tried installing through virt-manager but i’m getting crash when starting the VM. I have attached the error below. In this, centos-7.2.img is built using virt-builder with lentos-7.2 for the aarch64. ##qemu-system-arm -m 1024 -machine vexpress-a9 -drive file=centos-7.2.img,format=raw,if=ide (process:12672): GLib-WARNING **: gmem.c:483: custom memory allocation vtable not supported pulseaudio: set_sink_input_volume() failed pulseaudio: Reason: Invalid argument pulseaudio: set_sink_input_mute() failed pulseaudio: Reason: Invalid argument qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x04000000 R00=00000000 R01=00000000 R02=00000000 R03=00000000 R04=00000000 R05=00000000 R06=00000000 R07=00000000 R08=00000000 R09=00000000 R10=00000000 R11=00000000 R12=00000000 R13=00000000 R14=00000000 R15=04000000 PSR=400001d3 -Z-- A svc32 s00=00000000 s01=00000000 d00=0000000000000000 s02=00000000 s03=00000000 d01=0000000000000000 s04=00000000 s05=00000000 d02=0000000000000000 s06=00000000 s07=00000000 d03=0000000000000000 s08=00000000 s09=00000000 d04=0000000000000000 s10=00000000 s11=00000000 d05=0000000000000000 s12=00000000 s13=00000000 d06=0000000000000000 s14=00000000 s15=00000000 d07=0000000000000000 if i use virtio for the drive interface. i’m getting below error. ##qemu-system-arm -m 1024 -machine vexpress-a9 -drive file=centos-7.2.img,format=raw,if=virtio (process:14847): GLib-WARNING **: gmem.c:483: custom memory allocation vtable not supported pulseaudio: set_sink_input_volume() failed pulseaudio: Reason: Invalid argument pulseaudio: set_sink_input_mute() failed pulseaudio: Reason: Invalid argument qemu-system-arm: -drive file=centos-7.2.img,format=raw,if=virtio: No 'PCI' bus found for device 'virtio-blk-pci' Regards, karthi On 09/30/2018 08:08 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > W dniu 28.09.2018 o 12:42, karthi mohanraj pisze: >> Hi All, >> >> I’m a newbie to arm architecture. I want to setup a development VM >> with ARMv8 board using QEMU/KVM on CentOS based host. Is there any >> documentation available to try out? >> >> Or is there any other easy way to achieve this as i need to have a >> Development setup for CentOS? >> >> Please suggest me if any other better way to achieve this. > Easiest? Install AAVMF (uefi firmware for armv8), virt-manager and > qemu-system-arm. > > Run Virt-manager, choose 'new VM', open architecture chooser, select > aarch64. Give it hdd, install iso and go. You can also follow this guide to install a 32 bit VM on an aarch64 host, if 32 bit arm is what you want to dev on: https://www.arrfab.net/posts/2017/Sep/29/using-centos-7-armhfp-vm-on-centos… <https://www.arrfab.net/posts/2017/Sep/29/using-centos-7-armhfp-vm-on-centos…> Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Arm Development Using QEMU
by karthi mohanraj 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hi All, I’m a newbie to arm architecture. I want to setup a development VM with ARMv8 board using QEMU/KVM on CentOS based host. Is there any documentation available to try out? Or is there any other easy way to achieve this as i need to have a Development setup for CentOS? Please suggest me if any other better way to achieve this. Thanks, Karthi

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install via vnc
by Robert Moskowitz 28 Sep '18

28 Sep '18

yesterday I did a gnome image install. I have a monitor/keybd/mouse that I connected, as you MUST go through the GUI setup before the serial console gets to the login prompt, it seems. I then proceeded to switch to multi-user, install vncserver and get vnc client access going. It would be nice if an option for headless install would support the remote vnc access that I once, a long time ago, used for an install. What would it take to have this as an installation option?

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Re: [Arm-dev] Testing epel packages
by Mark Verlinde 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

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Re: [Arm-dev] Testing epel packages
by Mark Verlinde 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Afzender: Pablo Sebastián Greco<pablo(a)fliagreco.com.ar> Verstuurd: Zaterdag 22 September 2018 0:05 Aan: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware <arm-dev(a)centos.org>; Mark Verlinde <mark(a)havak.nl> Onderwerp: Re: [Arm-dev] Testing epel packages Hi El 21/9/18 a las 14:28, Mark Verlinde escribió: Hi, In reaction on the request for testing armhfp epel packages in the blog post of Pablo i'd like to know how/where feedback/results can be reported. This ML should be ok, thanks for reporting! We (nethserver-arm) use about 100 packages mirrored from epel-pass-1 repository for quite some time without issues. Most of them are the usual suspects and noarch, nevertheless nice to keep track of the packages known to be working. At one point, we imported all the noarch from the official epel repo, but we've stopped doing that and now we're rebuilding everything. BTW: We also make use of the PHP72 community effort to run nextcloud. Opt-in was no option therefore use the in /opt SCL solution. any reason why the opt-in was not an option? Thank you all for your work and persistence Again, thanks for testing! Pablo. As a start the string used to select packages to be included in the partial armhfp epel mirror; (spaces are replaced by newlines) Need to dig in to report more detail though... As an example: we do not uses all collectd plugins. In general this package (groups) are known to work: 0ad* 0install* altermime* amavisd-new* arj* arp-scan* bash-completion-extras* cabextract* certbot* clamav* clamd* collectd-ping* collectd-rrdtool* collectd* davfs2* duplicity* fail2ban-firewalld* fail2ban-sendmail* fail2ban-server* fail2ban-shorewall* fail2ban* firehol* freeze* getmail* gnustep* hiredis* htop* iftop* jemalloc* libargon2* libbsd* libc-client* libgsasl* libmcrypt* libopendkim* liboping* libprelude* librsync* libtidy* ncftp* nomarch* opendbx* opendkim* openvpn* p7zip-plugins* p7zip* perl-Authen-PAM* perl-BerkeleyDB* perl-Convert-BinHex* perl-Convert-TNEF* perl-Convert-UUlib* perl-Email-Valid* perl-Expect* perl-GDGraph* perl-GDGraph3d* perl-GDTextUtil* perl-IO-Multiplex* perl-MIME-tools* perl-Net-IPv4Addr* perl-Net-Server* perl-Proc-ProcessTable* perl-Razor-Agent* perl-Sys-Hostname-Long* perl-Sys-Hostname-Long* perl-Text-Template* perl-Unix-Syslog* php-imap* php-kolab-net-ldap3* php-mcrypt* php-pear-Auth-SASL* php-pear-Mail-Mime* php-pear-Net-IDNA2* php-pear-Net-LDAP2* php-pear-Net-Sieve* php-pear-Net-SMTP* php-pear-Net-Socket* php-pecl-apcu* php-pecl-igbinary* php-pecl-memcached* php-pecl-msgpack* php-pecl-redis* php-smbclient* pkcs11-helper* pulledpork* python-fasteners* python-GnuPGInterface* python-ndg_httpsclient* python-parsedatetime* python-requests-toolbelt* python-zope-component python-zope-event* python2-acme* python2-boto* python2-certbot* python2-configargparse* python2-dialog* python2-future* python2-gflags* python2-google-api-client python2-keyring* python2-josepy* python2-mock* python2-oauth2client* python2-parsedatetime* python2-psutil* python2-PyDrive* python2-pyrfc3339* python2-requests* python2-rsa* python2-simplejson* python2-six* python2-uritemplate* redis* roundcubemail* shorewall-core* shorewall* unzoo* xapian-bindings* xapian-core* zstd* zvbi-fonts*

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Testing epel packages
by Mark Verlinde 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

Hi, In reaction on the request for testing armhfp epel packages in the blog post of Pablo i'd like to know how/where feedback/results can be reported. We (nethserver-arm) use about 100 packages mirrored from epel-pass-1 repository for quite some time without issues. Most of them are the usual suspects and noarch, nevertheless nice to keep track of the packages known to be working. BTW: We also make use of the PHP72 community effort to run nextcloud. Opt-in was no option therefore use the in /opt SCL solution. Thank you all for your work and persistence

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Generic armhfp / aarch64 root filesystem for CentOS 7.5.1804
by Uli Middelberg 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

Hi Fabian, hi Jim, the CentOS 7.5.1804 iso images have been released for a while now and I'm wondering if you have plans to provide a generic armhfp / aarch64 root filesystem [1],[2] as well? Cheers Uli [1] https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/images-testing/CentOS-Userland-7-armv7… [2] http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.4.1708/isos/aarch64/CentOS-7-aarch64-roo…

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