On 14/07/14 11:35, Bert Massop wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Volker Fervers <mail...@edv-fervers.de> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> after running freenet for years 24x7 on standard PCs I'm searching a >> different suitable platform (e.g. concerning performance, power >> consumption). >> >> Found this list of single-boarders: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single-board_computers >> >> Are there any reports from freenetters on the ODROID-family? > What you should keep in mind in when picking your board of choice: > - Freenet needs a reasonably powerful CPU. Multicore is a big plus, > since Freenet is threaded heavily. IMHO the big issue here isn't horsepower, it's not having the thread priorities hack library. This is particularly a problem on ARM. Freenet doesn't use that much CPU except when it's doing download decoding etc, or when there's no good JVM??? > - Freenet needs *lots* of RAM (don't even think about <512MiB boards). > I'd go for one with 2GiB, though 1GiB may work just fine when Freenet > is configured conservatively and without WoT/Sone/… 512MB should be sufficient without WoT/Sone, no? > - Freenet will (at least in its current state) be quite heavy on > (random) I/O, up to *very* heavy when using plugins such as WoT. > > I've been thinking about running Freenet on one of those cheap Android > "TV sticks" that can be had from China for about €35. I still haven't > made my final decision on that, though: not all seem to accept custom > Linux installation equally well. That sounds interesting. > Please keep us informed on what you end up using and how it works out for you. > > — Bert
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