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.
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).
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 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.
Gordan