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RE: Upgrading your Gridcoin Raspberry Pi node
Now this is gonna be good, I've been wanting to dig into these things for a while now, thank you!
I need to go back and check out your other article, but, I think I may have a long list of questions soon.
General question, while I maniacally plan out heating a greenhouse with BOINC'ing Raspberry Pi's...., Have you touched upon the Zero form factor yet, thoughts on that even being fun to try and figure out, or total futility?
No I have not tried a Pi Zero, the reason is RAM.
Pi 2/3 has a 1Gb RAM, whereas Pi Zero only has 512MB. My Pi 2/3 already needs 44% RAM just for gricoinresearchd which would be 88% on a Pi Zero, plus other overhead of OS etc. my Pi2/3 is running at 509MB RAM.
The point is it may work for now, but as the block-chain grows I have witnesses the RAM requirement grow with it, I think this is due to the block index. If Gridcoin upgrades to allow chain pruning, that may be an answer.
If you want an adventure, for $5 its probably worth a shot, if you do be sure to report back!
Will do! Was looking around just now and found a bonnet where you can place TFT's on the zero, put a pair, make animated eyes. As if I didn't have enough half done projects cluttering everything up.
Thanks for throwing those numbers out though, saved me giving it a longer think, very thoughtful of you to break it down, as I tend to bring hammers when soldering irons should be used.
Whats another half done project, at least it has the others for company ;)