[Dxspider-support] Raspberry pi 5

[Keith, G6NHU]

Michael, I have the RBN feed enabled on my cluster - Not many users have it switched on though although I have a lot more during CW and data contests with it enabled than during non contest times.

See the attached image, I currently have 902 users, 22 node partners (I’m working to reduce this) and the two RBN feeds and it’s using just over 300Mb of memory.   My comment about 500Mb earlier was a guesstimate, so therefore it’s a little high but I wouldn’t want to run on a device with just 500Mb of memory.   You can also see from the CPU load average that it sits at idle most of the time.

I said it was a 2Gb device, my mistake - My spare is 2Gb, this one is 4Gb because it’s all that was available on Pi5 launch day.

Hope that helps,

73 Keith.
On 31 Mar 2025 at 20:29 +0100, Michael Adams via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>, wrote:
> Out of curiosity: Is the 500MB of memory handling the full RBN firehoses, or just classic spots?
>
> I’m a lurking AR node operator.  And while I still prefer AR’s filter commands… in the wake of recent events, I’m considering my options.
>
> --
> Michael Adams | mda at n1en.org
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> From: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> On Behalf Of Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support
> Sent: Monday, 31 March, 2025 13:38
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> Cc: Keith, G6NHU <g6nhu at me.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Raspberry pi 5
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> Ken, my 2Gb Pi5 runs nearly 1000 users and it’s using barely 500Mb of memory.  Anything more than that is massive overkill and just a waste of money.
>
> 73 Keith
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