On 07/30/2014 10:05 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On 2014-07-30 14:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
If I better understood the build process, I would spend the $100 for another Cubie if needed. Going to have to get another one for the server anyway. Thing is will the C2 with 1GB memory be enough, or the Ctruck with 2GB memory?
For what purpose/workload? If it is for building packages, when I built RedSleeve I used 512MB Sheeva/Guru/Dream Plug machines. As long as you attach plenty of swap on reasonable media (don't use USB sticks or SD cards, their random-write performance is _terrible_) it'll be fine. More RAM will help speed things up for sure but it isn't necessary.
How do you 'attach plenty of swap'? Attaching an SATA drive is easy for me and I can format it anyway I need, but how do I point swap to it?
If you are asking for some kind of a server workload, it depends on the workload. For example, redsleeve.org runs in a 2 GHz armv5tel Marvell Kirkwood with 1GB of RAM (QNAP TS-421).
Thought so. My C2 would be more than enough, except maybe the mail server. But even it is not running all out.
For a heavier workload you might want to look at something like the Cornfed Systems' Conserver (quad core ARM, 4GB of RAM, mini ITX form factor).
I am waiting to see what the Allwinner A80 will be like!
I have 2 production Intel servers that I would be interested in replacing. First my DNS server, onlo.htt-consult.com. All it runs is DNS; I would like to get DNSSEC working at some point. z9n9z is my mial server. I built a C6 replacement for it, but still have not rolled it out. Minimally I would do a C7 build on the replacement hardware to check out all of the components before trying this on arm.
I wouldn't rush headlong into EL7 in production quite yet. Let the bleeding edge adopters sort out the the most obvious issues at least on x86 first.
Oh, no plan for sure! Perhaps in late November based on Holidays and conferences. I mean this month is kind of open, but more for some basic testing. And some of my servers are still i686 so I have to wait on that too.
And I would rather spend the money replacing them with armv7 and save power than x86 and eat up more power!