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gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Mi 24.01.2024 07:41:00

Ok, starting right now - gyptazy.ch web-services are temporary served (see also the attached image) by this ( board from home. If something is a little bit slower than usual it might depend on this hardware or on the limited upstream of 50Mbit. Grafana performance metrics will be provided by the end of the day.


gyptazy

gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Mi 24.01.2024 09:04:05

Pretty boring so far, I guess?
Unfortunately the thermal sensors are not working, that ones would be pretty interesting. As we can see it's more or less idling and already getting warm, tending more to hot. Ok, I'm running it as you can see on the photo without any active cooling. For running in the DC it will get active cooling but for now I want to know if it will just throttle, turn off or maybe even throw kernel panics etc.... stay tuned

Frankenmichl

Frankenmichl (@frankenmichl@metalhead.club)

Föderation DE Mi 24.01.2024 14:40:00

@gyptazy Das Board sieht echt interessant aus! Benutzt du nur eine microSD, oder auch eine NVMe?
Das wäre für mich ja schon fast ein Raspberry Pi Killer

gyptazy

gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Mi 24.01.2024 14:44:11

@frankenmichl@metalhead.club it supports NVMe but I’m only running from SD. Afterwards the static content gets loaded into memory and served to avoid I/O on the SD. Since I’m only serving static content from a remote GIT this isn’t a big deal. But I should give it some more complex cases a try :)

Richard Hector

Richard Hector (@richardh@mastodon.nz)

Föderation EN Mi 24.01.2024 10:13:40

@gyptazy
So the DIP switches are labelled 1 and 2, with values of ON and (by implication) OFF, but the reference table printed on the board calls them 0 and 1, with values of 0 and 1? Nice :-)
I guess they didn't have the part in hand when laying out the board.

gyptazy

gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Mi 24.01.2024 13:07:15

Hehe yeah I guess the same

gyptazy

gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Mi 24.01.2024 16:11:17

So, I'm closing this test for today and I'm honestly very happy how the board performs in the wild.

Attached you can find the metrics and the system wasn't bothered in any way... But I also need to say, that everything is running in a very optimized way with a really low footprint in all ways. Thank you all (it were more than 20 people over the whole day) for testing, stress testing and your feedback I got during the day. The next steps will result in replacing ns[01,02] and ntp[01,02] (low performance) with ( boards. ns[03,04] and ntp[03,04] will remain on ARM architecture until everything is running stable. Guess, you will see some more RISC64 related content soon - stay tuned!

gyptazy

gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Do 25.01.2024 20:57:38

short note: Running Geekbench in now. The system is not cooled in any way (even no heatpipe) and ran about 75°C during the benchmark tests. Looks like it'll stay there (and maybe throttle).


Stefano Marinelli

Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

Föderation EN Do 25.01.2024 22:14:09

@gyptazy the raw numbers don't look impressive...

gyptazy

gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Do 25.01.2024 22:15:53

@stefano@bsd.cafe indeed, the performance isn't that good. But at least it works ;)

Stefano Marinelli

Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

Föderation EN Do 25.01.2024 23:03:29

@gyptazy sure, that's a great thing! 👍

gyptazy

gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Fr 26.01.2024 05:05:14

@stefano@bsd.cafe we can only hope that the performance will improve by time but we shouldn’t expect much more. But it’s really sad to see that it sometimes even slower than a Pi 3 🫣

Tara Stella

Tara Stella (@tara@hachyderm.io)

Föderation EN Fr 26.01.2024 05:12:49

@gyptazy I have faith in RISC-V, but it'll take time. ARM took a looong journey to be where it is. But I am so excited that a fully open chip is out in the market and it's working, even if performance are not there yet 🥳
@stefano

gyptazy

gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Fr 26.01.2024 05:56:31

@tara@hachyderm.io @stefano@bsd.cafe I’m fully with you and we need also to take note that the hardware is capable of much more but limited by software (duo to missing drivers). Currently I’m writing a „wiki“ or more a summary post about the VF2 board including images, resources etc. much content is only available in Chinese or broken links with missing content which was hard to find somewhere else. Hope it can make other ones life easier…

stig atle

stig atle (@stigatle@activitypub.stigatle.no)

Föderation · Do 25.01.2024 21:05:46

I love risc-v stuff! You are lucky to have one of those boards :)
Jealous!

gyptazy

gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

Föderation · Do 25.01.2024 21:43:13

@stigatle@activitypub.stigatle.no indeed, thanks! It's pretty cool :) And there're 5 of them here now :)