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<Acou_Bass>
hey everyone, just a quickie, when i run nix on my pi 3 it seems like it takes forever to do anything and causes processes running to die (when i do nix-env or nixos-rebuild etc.) just wondering, would a better/faster SD card or ist
<Acou_Bass>
is the pi3 just a bit slow? XD
<srk>
o/ how much ram does it have?
<srk>
it's not very fast, I've update my rpis via nixos-rebuild --target-host from a bit more powerful ARM machine with SS
<srk>
SSD
<srk>
I think you could achieve the same with cross compiling
<Acou_Bass>
pi 3 is... 1gb ram but im only using about 200-300 of that from normal usage
<srk>
hmm, need to try that cross thing
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<Acou_Bass>
and i dont think nixos updates compile much if anything, its even if i run like nix-channel update
<srk>
the problem is the evaluation which takes quite a lot of ram
<Acou_Bass>
ahhh
<srk>
does it get to building?
<Acou_Bass>
yeah it does eventually do its thing
<Acou_Bass>
just takes a while to do it
<srk>
cool, that's expected I would say :)
<srk>
could be worse with pi1/2 :)
<Acou_Bass>
fair
<Acou_Bass>
XD
<srk>
or - there's another option - bake the image with all the required stuff, insert sd card and forget about it :D
<Acou_Bass>
means rebuilding an image on another PC when i wanna update it though
<srk>
not necessarily, you can still update it via nixos-rebuild directly on it if you have a config there or update it remotely with nixos-rebuild --target-host
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<samueldr>
I really need to setup a hard drive on my local aarch64 builder
<samueldr>
it's quick enough to handle builds in a passable amount of time (rk3399)
<samueldr>
but it's slowed down heavily by an SD card
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<hexa->
really? an sd card? :p
<hexa->
someone smart told me adding a real disk increases reliability of such a device
<samueldr>
things you do when you settle for "good enough"
<samueldr>
though I did try setting it up to boot on hard disk
<samueldr>
but u-boot wouldn't
<samueldr>
and I didn't spend more time at the time since it was good enough for my needs :)
<samueldr>
it's good enough as I can start a build for a system before going to sleep, and the next day it's done
<samueldr>
but it's horrible for doing it live!
<matthewbauer>
you can get better performance/liftime by setting "commit=600" on the ext filesystem. you would lose up to 10 minutes of data on power failure, but limit the number of writes a ton (120x). probably a good idea if you have a UPS .
<samueldr>
yeah, just saw that commit
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