mmm Do I smell Pi ... Raspberry Pi

[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

[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.

[hanker]

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.

[sander]

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 ...

[hanker]

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