-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am using this box currently as a bittorrent-seeder with qbittorrent-nox. The web-interface is nice. Today I built an embedded-server kernel for it. It seems to be doing quite well so far, but there were problems with the Sandisk-Ultra-USB3 (32GB) storage-stick, I am using there. It cannot handle all compressed filesystems, installation of PC-BSD (with LZ4-compressed ZFS-root) on it failed. After that the stick seemed to be defective, but it resumed work upon completely zeroing it. Today there was downtime, I spent much of the day, moving seeded files around, defragmenting and balancing, now it is running again, and the wattage is surprisingly low: 8W, although the files, it is distributing need to be decompressed permanently, because they are on LZO-BTRFS. The maximum wattage, I saw, was at 14W. I have done some online-research and found VIA-nano devices are rare, there seem to be quadcores in mini-ITX format, but this configuration is without SMP. With the stock-kernel dmesg looked like this: . .. [ 0.040396] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0 Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0, 1GB 0 tlb_flushall_shift: -1 [ 0.072464] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 20K (ffffffff81a1b000 - ffffffff81a20000) [ 0.076761] ftrace: allocating 21614 entries in 85 pages [ 0.124879] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 [ 0.166078] smpboot: CPU0: Centaur VIA Nano U3500@1000MHz (fam: 06, model: 0f, stepping: 0a) [ 0.168000] Performance Events: no PMU driver, software events only. [ 0.169644] x86: Booted up 1 node, 1 CPUs [ 0.169654] smpboot: Total of 1 processors activated (1994.98 BogoMIPS) .. . With the hp-t5550-specific VIA-kernel, it does not appear any faster, but probably it works more efficiently, with less overhead: . .. [ 0.000000] hpet clockevent registered [ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT [ 0.000000] tsc: Detected 997.612 MHz processor [ 0.010031] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 1995.22 BogoMIPS (lpj=9976120) [ 0.010043] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 [ 0.010060] ACPI: Core revision 20140424 [ 0.042189] ACPI: All ACPI Tables successfully acquired [ 0.050082] Security Framework initialized [ 0.050111] AppArmor: AppArmor disabled by boot time parameter [ 0.050118] Yama: disabled by default; enable with sysctl kernel.yama.* [ 0.050159] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) [ 0.050168] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) [ 0.050970] Initializing cgroup subsys memory [ 0.050987] Initializing cgroup subsys devices [ 0.051036] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer [ 0.051051] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls [ 0.051079] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio [ 0.051101] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event [ 0.051112] Initializing cgroup subsys net_prio [ 0.051184] mce: CPU supports 0 MCE banks [ 0.051200] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0 Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0, 1GB 0 tlb_flushall_shift: -1 [ 0.051209] CPU: Centaur VIA Nano U3500@1000MHz (fam: 06, model: 0f, stepping: 0a) [ 0.063602] ftrace: allocating 20306 entries in 80 pages [ 0.110191] Performance Events: no PMU driver, software events only. [ 0.121369] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 [ 0.230000] NMI watchdog: disabled (cpu0): hardware events not enabled [ 0.230000] devtmpfs: initialized .. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlU/qxIACgkQ5+rBHyUt5wt/egCgwfX34fRFM4s0VcTvJkwfLibY To8AnjKAKk6U/MQaGEV+dFHShAKtwNOk =2oPL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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