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Curiosity killed the cat but I'm gonna ask anyway... Why? Is it something people like to do with idle machines just for fun? I can get myself into this sport then.
Just curious: why would NetBSD be so slow on an Atom? Seems odd.
By design. NetBSD is primarily an OS designed for portability and design OVER usability. They had UFS softupdates and other goodies in NetBSD 4-5, but ended up removing them. When the kernel shuts down, it unloads every damn device first. It's beautiful and annoying at the same time.
Okay, so you mean just the usual not-so-fast behavior of NetBSD. I had misunderstood you to mean that there was some exceptional slowness linked to the fact that it's an Atom ...
I use ffmpeg a lot and generally run the dev version, so I recompile after a git pull. That's relatively frequent, like maybe weekly. I didn't mean literally all the time.
Well, yeah. It's an Atom. XD
Fwiw I just noticed it doesn't have AES hardware. For some reason I thought recent Atoms had that. I guess this is a non-recent Atom. That might explain scp's high cpu consumption.
N2800 is about 5-6 years old.
Too bad they won't remove the VAT for non-EU customers anymore. That's a 20% price hike for some.
They removed VAT for me 2 weeks ago. How can you confirm what you said? link?
you will need to get your account approved
Have been hearing about it too. I heard it from some Chinese. Also on kimsufi FAQ:
google ""due to a change of policy, vat exemptions will no longer apply on kimsufi orders for our non-european customers." and you'll see those Chinese forum's posts.
Got it done a week ago, you need to be a company outside the EU.
But this is only for new customers then? I'm from a non EU country and I do not pay VAT at Kimsufi. Tried renew on one of my servers and I do still not pay VAT, and when I order a new server I still not pay VAT
Ah. A 'chinese tax' now (every 3rd worlder affected of course)
Maybe their fraud rate was close to 20%.
You got to keep in mind that there is only so much you can do with an Atom server if you want optimal performance. I got 4... had emby running on one but it wasn't good enough so now I only run rtorrent and document storage on 2 of them. 2 sitting idle.
They removed the VAT for me, and I even didnt ask for it. Just sent my validation papers via email, and 1 day later I got my account approved and invoiced changed with no VAT (that was 3 days ago)
Wow. I had to wait like 3 weeks for this to be done. You're lucky.
One ticket with the scan invoices for electricity / phone and changing the VAT rate in 48 hours
I didn't get charged vat.
Lol, the N2800 (single thread) is about 2x slower than the Avoton C2750 (single thread) at the pi calculation benchmark:
It's about the same speed as the Scaleway C1 ARM server.
Its a 5+ year old Atom. It's basically on par with an 802.11n router.
Cruel hoax, I got a check.ovh notification that the ks-3c was back in stock, but it was at the regular price with setup fee. And it was in stock before!
I'm still waiting to get this delivered...
Does check.ovh provide notifications for special deals? Most Kimsufi checkers only notify for regular servers. I got the same notification from kimi.nwwebsites.co.uk for regular servers
I think it only checks the regular ones. This flash sale was announced in advance on OVH twitter but I don't know if the KS-3C one was.
I notice they've finally stopped this flash sale after running it for several days.
The slow Atom (600-ish passmark) inspired me to look up the passmark of a few of my old laptops, one of which I still sort of use. The 1ghz Pentium M is around 300 passmark and the 800mhz Celeron ULV is under 200. And the laptop (EEE PC 701) underclocks the Celeron to 633 mhz iirc so it's probably in the 150 passmark range. And yet its fan won't stop spinning once it turns on, lol.
The even older Pentium MMX 233 mhz isn't even on the chart
I have an 8 thread older i7 laptop (with crappy resolution), but I sit on an ancient Core2Duo because it keeps my lap warm. SSD makes things pretty fast.
Dangers of Human Omelet. Be careful mate
Another bonus!
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