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gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Mi 31.01.2024 06:03:02

Hm, I’m thinking about switching completely my personal servers to based systems. Why?

Because I can! For real, it’s an awesome new platform, almost no one is using it for production (because of the limited support (especially currently from an OS perspective), knowledge and performance). However, I’m already running some boards in production, some tests I already shared with you (see also summary) and we saw that it’s easily running my workloads - so why not?

So when speaking about „why not“ my first issue is that it would force me to instead of . It would be the first time since 2008 running personal Linux server instead of BSD based ones. It’s not a knowledge problem, I heavily even contribute to a Debian based distribution as a developer, it’s more an aspect of philosophy.

If you’re interested in (especially the board), see also:

* Fediverse with snac: https://gyptazy.ch/snac/gyptazy/p/1706017043.921341
* Weberserver (testrun for a day): https://gyptazy.ch/snac/gyptazy/p/1706078460.746773
* More details: https://gyptazy.ch/misc/collection-of-images-and-information-for-risc64-board-visionfive2/
* Benchmarks: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/4566123
* Docs: https://wiki.bsd.cafe/docs:riscv64
* Chat: We also have a chat for RISC related topics in the BSD cafe. Feel free to join us at: :bsd.cafe




Kyle Leaders

Kyle Leaders (@kleaders@fosstodon.org)

Föderation EN Mi 31.01.2024 07:15:10

@gyptazy I've been surprised by how performant my lichee pi4 had been with web workloads. It does really well with lots of lightweight parallel things, but unfortunately really struggles with heavy compute (like compiling). Overall it's really cool to see more out there.

gyptazy

gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Mi 31.01.2024 07:56:02

Yes, you're right. Don't know if you have seen my test where this little thing had to do all the workloads of my production web server. But honestly, it was just static content so it shouldn't have any impacts. Compiling is really slow but mostly I want to have the system clean without dev things - I build everything in a RISCV64 QEMU VM. I think the biggest problem right now is that there're still many information missing to get started. Information about boards and hardware, dealers to obtain it, getting a desired os on it and the whole driver issues. Much content is in Chinese and you have to read the code to understand things... I think as soon as we have more information in English it will get easier for everyone. Therefore, it's a great value by everyone to document and provide hints regarding riscv64!