[plug] SBC with 32gb ram

[Bill Kenworthy]

Hi Dean,

     they are nearly twice the price of a H2 - yes the intels have good 
specs, but they are loaded with things I will never use - I dont want, 
or rather want to pay for fancy graphics or multimedia extensions, 
wireless and so on.

BillK



On 22/11/19 4:41 pm, Dean Bergin wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:billk at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 22/11/19 1:59 pm, Leon Wright wrote:
>>     On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 1:26 PM Bill Kenworthy
>>     <billk at iinet.net.au <mailto:billk at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>>
>>         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
>>     --
>>     DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'
>
>
>     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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