[plug] SBC with 32gb ram

[Dean Bergin]

So why not get an Intel nuc and put 32g or more in it?

Assumption is that you want low power but not a full desktop.


On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, 14:15 Bill Kenworthy, <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

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> On 22/11/19 1:59 pm, Leon Wright wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 1:26 PM Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
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>> Overkill - not really. The calculations show I need at least 16G (its
>> currently using ~11G).  I was using an odroid-n2 with 4G ram - slowed to a
>> crawl when it hit swap and eventually crashed.  I moved the master to a
>> much more powerful intel server with 32mb and it has crashed once but I was
>> hammering it (graphs show it ran out of ram - need to check if the OOM is
>> disabled on that one).  Cheats like moving swap and the mfs directories to
>> a usb3 connected SSD helped (4-5 times faster than an SD card), but
>> eventually fell short.
>>
>> I have 10 disks (~26Tb) spread across 5, soon to be 6 low power odroids
>> and an intel atom.  The problem came when I put two copies of 20+ years
>> email (millions of smallish files) on it and then reconfigured the mail
>> server to use one copy.   Yes, I know ...self inflicted! But it did work
>> for a few days! :)
>>
>> There are some guide calculations on the moosefs website that match what
>> I am seeing for usage and support why I want at least 32G.  There are still
>> some shortcuts I could use (go back to putting the small files in a qemu
>> virtual disk) but that had its own issues.  I see some emails on the
>> moosefs website about masters with hundreds of G ram!
>>
>> billK
>>
>>
>> A H2 will take 32GB of ram:
> https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h2/
>
> Leon
> --
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>
>
> Yes, but that's the only one I have found short of going for a full system
> - I was hoping someone could point out something I have missed.
>
> BillK
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