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mmm Do I smell Pi ... Raspberry Pi
Posted: March 2nd, 2012, 4:12 pm
by J03 8LACK
Raspberry Pi
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
Hey, Who out there is excited to get there hands on one of these.
So what do you think? Could we run Sabnzbd+ and all its add-ons on this little Pi. Add a Usb drive and you have the Backend and if things go well XBMC will be ported to it, creating a Frontend. WOW can't wait , mines on backorder but at least Im in Line.
mmm
Pi
J03
Re: mmm Do I smell Pi ... Raspberry Pi
Posted: March 2nd, 2012, 4:44 pm
by jcfp
The raspberry pi device can run a normal linux distro (that supports the device's cpu architecture). So it will run sab too, might not be the fastest given the modest hardware but it's enough to get it going.
Re: mmm Do I smell Pi ... Raspberry Pi
Posted: March 5th, 2012, 3:56 pm
by hanker
J03 8LACK wrote:Raspberry Pi
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
Hey, Who out there is excited to get there hands on one of these.
So what do you think? Could we run Sabnzbd+ and all its add-ons on this little Pi. Add a Usb drive and you have the Backend and if things go well XBMC will be ported to it, creating a Frontend. WOW can't wait , mines on backorder but at least Im in Line.
mmm
Pi
J03
I have sab running on lower-end hardware than that: a Seagate Dockstar: ARM processor, 128 MB RAM, boots Debian squeeze. It's not super-fast, but it's very stable and gets the job done with minimal power requirements. It also runs rtorrent and rutorrent and acts as a NAS.
Sab should run with no problem at all on the rpi. I'm probably going to get one eventually to replace the Dockstar and another one to see if I can get the MythTV frontend to run on it.
Re: mmm Do I smell Pi ... Raspberry Pi
Posted: March 5th, 2012, 4:07 pm
by sander
hanker wrote:
I have sab running on lower-end hardware than that: a Seagate Dockstar: ARM processor, 128 MB RAM, boots Debian squeeze. It's not super-fast, but it's very stable and gets the job done with minimal power requirements. It also runs rtorrent and rutorrent and acts as a NAS.
How does that behave when parring and unrarring? I have a HDX1000 with a 300MHz MIPS processor, and parring/unraaring a DVD can litterally take half a day ...
Re: mmm Do I smell Pi ... Raspberry Pi
Posted: March 6th, 2012, 8:12 am
by hanker
sander wrote:hanker wrote:
I have sab running on lower-end hardware than that: a Seagate Dockstar: ARM processor, 128 MB RAM, boots Debian squeeze. It's not super-fast, but it's very stable and gets the job done with minimal power requirements. It also runs rtorrent and rutorrent and acts as a NAS.
How does that behave when parring and unrarring? I have a HDX1000 with a 300MHz MIPS processor, and parring/unraaring a DVD can litterally take half a day ...
I don't recall having anything take more than maybe an hour or two to process after the download is complete. The Dockstar has a 1.2 GHz processor though. Where it's really starving is in RAM. It uses a swap file on a usb hard disk. htop looks like:
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CPU[|||||||||||||||| 64.6%] Tasks: 110 total, 2 running
Mem[|||||||||||||||108/122MB] Load average: 0.23 0.25 0.26
Swp[|| 83/999MB] Uptime: 57 days, 22:28:12
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
790 doc 20 0 70084 23468 2356 S 39.0 18.7 42h10:40 rtorren
8102 www-data 20 0 26048 5528 2720 S 8.0 4.4 25:04.22 /usr/sb