On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 07:19:28AM +0100, peter green wrote: >Rogério Brito wrote: >>Nice that this was brought up, so I can ask: are all ARM machine generally >>memory-starved, in comparison with other platforms? >Compared with PC hardware definately. There are a couple of modern >arm boards >i'm aware of with 1GB (panda and imx53 quickstart) but even 1GB isn't really >enough for building large C++ applications in a reasonable time. For >example >the most recent build of webkit on one of the debian armhf buildds (IMX53 >quickstart with laptop hard drive for swap) took over 52 hours. > >I know at least one of the armel buildds has 1.5GB but I think the >board it is running on is discontinued or at least hard to find.
See http://blog.einval.com/2010/09/27#marvell_buildds for more details - we have 6 machines with this spec, using Marvell DB-78x00-BP development boards. I don't know if they're still available, but they're only ARMv5. >IIRC HP are talking about some arm based servers which may well >aleviate this issue but I have no idea how much they plan to charge. They'll be the Calxeda-based machines. The first version is the Highbank: quad-core Cortex A9, 4GB RAM on a single daughter card. Designed for consolidating servers, but each individual "blade" should be reasonable cost I hope. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120330132828.ge20...@einval.com
