Rasberry Pi alternate Banana pi

Nihim

@deadbeef said:

We are still under capital control so purchases with greek cards are only allowed for certain kind of purchases.

deadbeef

@Nihim said:
We are still under capital control so purchases with greek cards are only allowed for certain kind of purchases.

I'm Greek, I buy stuff online with cc/debit without an issue (for example this month I paid scaleway, amazon, bookdepository etc) . Haven't tried aliexpress recently though.

Nihim

Yea depends on what category each company is listed at.
Btw seems aliexpress processes orders even if payment is unsuccessful, as a result just saw I had like 4-5 orders pending for the same item

@deadbeef: i.imgur.com/JAJx78m.png

noaman

@nihim
Never used this website but googled it :-)
http://www.banggood.com/Orange-Pi-Learning-Development-Board-p-969428.html

GM2015

If you're into bitcoins, see http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/18/mining-and-learning-with-the-21-bitcoin-computer. Bad investment, but it's a rasperry pi.

noaman said: goog

hawkjohn7

Just hit 12MBps on file copy on usb 2.0 banana pi
attached usb HDD seagate backup plus

Nihim

@noaman said:

Thx, paypal is accepted will have to check prices for the pi and see if sellers / site is ~trustworthy.+

@GM2015 said:

I got 0.x something BTC but mining at this time is worthless but as the article states it's an nice proof of concept.

TheLinuxBug

@hawkjohn7 try some of these settings and let me know if this improves it for you any:

echo 912000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq

echo 912000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq

echo 1008000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq

echo 1008000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor

echo 25 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/io_is_busy

echo deadline > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler # Please note use your drive in place of sda if different

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If you are using this over network:

echo 1 > /proc/irq/$(cat /proc/interrupts | grep sw_ahci | cut -f 1 -d ":" | tr -d " ")/smp_affinity

echo 2 > /proc/irq/$(cat /proc/interrupts | grep eth0 | cut -f 1 -d ":" | tr -d " ")/smp_affinity

echo 2 > /sys/class/net/eth0/queues/rx-0/rps_cpus

echo 2 > /sys/class/net/eth0/queues/tx-0/xps_cpus

Some tweaks for the Banana Pi (A20) that I have found useful.

Note: these reset each boot usually, but you may also want to cat each one for their default value before changing it just so you know what you're changing

Cheers!

noaman

@nihim
Could you do a transaction for me in paypal ?
I could send you the payment in other form ....

noaman

I hope I am not breaking any law :-)

Nihim

@noaman I have a policy of not using paypal or any other payment for people I don't know in RL, plus since atm I can only use paypal for cross country transactions...

Still you can pm me and tell me what it was you wanted but 90% + I will prolly have to say no

noaman

@nihim no probs....actually I found the 9 bucks UHS 1 card micro SD 32 GB...and they accepted paypal