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0 pointsirusensei3y ago0 comments

Stopped using FreeBSD on my home servers (2 RockPro64s) because it lacks big.Little support, which results in an OS that doesn't distinct between the stronger and weaker cores. Among the BSDs only NetBSD supports it but that's too far from my comfort zone. Not only that but SSL and GNUTLS speeds were terrible at the time since it didn't knew how to use the cpu extensions (greatly impacts samba performance) I've stoped using.

Meanwhile Linux is a breeze. Faster, more responsible pulling 650MB/s on AES cryptsetup benchmark. BTRFS is actually quite good and LXC replaces jails. Transfers can easily saturate my gigabit connection. Don't think I'm going back so soon.

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nix233y ago· 2 in thread

Yeah sorry i don't like the idea of weaker stronger cores, i think it's one of the most stupidest ideas.

Sirened3y ago

Do you like...not believe in the idea of power efficiency? Heterogeneous SoCs are one of the biggest reasons why we can have incredibly powerful smartphones that still last all day—you can't run the big cores at full throttle all the time because they just use too much power.

nix233y ago

No i think having identical cores who can slow down and deactivate features on-demand or deactivate itself is a better use of space.

>you can't run the big cores at full throttle all the time because they just use too much power.

Yes you don't do that...not even on servers (sometimes).

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