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!