Re: Suggestion for Freenet Platform

On 14/07/14 11:35, Bert Massop wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Volker Fervers <[email protected]> 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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