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I'd love to be able to bring more of my regular tools with me. Run a small prometheus instance, a small samba instance, a postgres database. On a 128MB wifi ro
by rektide 3y ago
I'd love to be able to bring more of my regular tools with me. Run a small prometheus instance, a small samba instance, a postgres database.
On a 128MB wifi router this all & a lot of other small utils fits okay ish, runs fine, while routing. 256MB vastly preferred.
- brucehoult 3y agoI have no idea of the needs of prometheus. Samba and postgres should be fine on a machine with more than 32 MB free. Hell, in the late 90s I was running that kind of stuff on Linux on a Pentium with 32 MB total RAM, not >32 MB free after booting.
- rektide 3y agoIt'd all fit barely. But gee it's getting tight. It just feels to me not worth fighting. And I'd want a couple small apps running too, & maybe not small native C things but like some smallish node.js things. Wifi routers tend to be much bigger class devices but 128mb is very common, 256 pretty establishdd. It's just nice not feeling super space constrainted. This isn't rocket science, we shouldn't have to obsess over payload size. The cost should be so small. Albeit yet at scale some folks do have cause to pinch those pennies, it's not a good general computing path.