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What surprises me the most is the 1GB option is even viable though I can imagine this will be for IoT users who shove Pi's into things doing embedded stuff wher
by MisterTea 11mo ago
What surprises me the most is the 1GB option is even viable though I can imagine this will be for IoT users who shove Pi's into things doing embedded stuff where a kernel with a few user space things along with maybe a container are doing all the work.
- pjerem 11mo agoProbably but I fail to see what use case doesn't need more than 1Gb but can't be done already with a Pi 3b or 4.
- Mashimo 11mo agoI have a Pi3b in a 3D printer, and compiling the software, but also simply apt upgrade feels like it takes forever. Most day to day operations work just fine though. At work we have a display with a Pi3 (not B) connected, just showing websites in rotation. Websites even with a simple animation are laggy, startup takes a few minutes. Both of these usecases don't need more than 1 GB of ram, but I want to speed of a 4 or 5.
- dwedge 11mo agoThe 4 and 5 are pretty laggy too. An improvement, but slow.
- geerlingguy 11mo agoUsually it's just "same thing but faster". CPU is 2-3x faster, and even boot speed is faster, so it can be handy to not have to wait so long to run updates, compile something, reboot, etc.
- shrx 11mo agoWell to be honest, I'm doing just fine with my 1 GB Pi3B home server. Sure, another gigabyte wouldn't hurt, but I'm able to run influxd, zigbee2mqtt, telegraf, grafana, homeassistant (containerized), mpd and navidrome on it without issues.
- overfeed 11mo ago> What surprises me the most is the 1GB option is even viable... There are plenty of non-IoT use cases that are viable with 1GB of general-purpose compute. Hell, I rented an obscenely cheap 512MB VPS until recently, and only abandoned it because its ancient kernel version was a security risk. Most of my RPi tasks are not memory-bound
- segmondy 11mo agoyou would be surprised to find out some of us are doing fine with 512mb pi zero w.