cc -march for Intel Celeron N5105 (for optimised Nextcloud on FeeBSD)

Crivens said:
I have yet to find something emacs was not claimed to be good for. The plugins are so numerous. It's a nice OS, but lacks a usable editor ;)

Usually patching a binary needs a skill set I don't seem to see in the OP, so byte shuffeling might be a bit over their head - which would most likely make things worse if attempted. Also, killing the messenger does not make the message less bad. That issue should be resolved in some other way.
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I give byte shuffling a try but the errors would still remain. :(
Is there other low-power hardware for small home servers (with nextcloud) out there that would be fully supported by FreeBSD?
 
alxle said:
Is there other low-power hardware for small home servers (with nextcloud) out there that would be fully supported by FreeBSD?
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Yes. Fully supported is tall order. How about 95% supported. That can be easily met.

First fork in the road. ECC or not. Then storage type. Single or Dual drives. NVMe or SATA. 2.5" or M.2.
It will add considerable cost over media center/thin client type platforms. You move into the mini-server realm.
 
alxle said:
I give byte shuffling a try but the errors would still remain. :(
Is there other low-power hardware for small home servers (with nextcloud) out there that would be fully supported by FreeBSD?
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Any small x86-64 a.k.a. amd64 server should do. I have a micro-ATX motherboard with a quad-core Atom, 1.8 GHz, and 4GByte of RAM. No SCSI card, disks (4 or 5 of them) are connected via SATA or USB-3. Fully supported. Until about a year ago, I was running it in 32-bit i386 mode, but that has dropped to a lower support tier. Also has several things connected via RS-232 serial ports, and until recently had a parallel (!) printer. I haven't measured power consumption in years, but it used to be under 30W.

Nextcloud is, from the FreeBSD perspective, just a set of apps / packages / ports / programs that get installed.

If you want to go lower in power, there are various ARM and RISC based solutions. I'm very fond of Raspberry Pi, but there the FreeBSD support is a bit iffy (not awful, not non-existing, but not great either).
 
ralphbsz said:
Any small x86-64 a.k.a. amd64 server should do. I have a micro-ATX motherboard with a quad-core Atom, 1.8 GHz, and 4GByte of RAM. No SCSI card, disks (4 or 5 of them) are connected via SATA or USB-3. Fully supported. Until about a year ago, I was running it in 32-bit i386 mode, but that has dropped to a lower support tier. Also has several things connected via RS-232 serial ports, and until recently had a parallel (!) printer. I haven't measured power consumption in years, but it used to be under 30W.

Nextcloud is, from the FreeBSD perspective, just a set of apps / packages / ports / programs that get installed.

If you want to go lower in power, there are various ARM and RISC based solutions. I'm very fond of Raspberry Pi, but there the FreeBSD support is a bit iffy (not awful, not non-existing, but not great either).
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Very helpful. Thank you!
 
Yes, the old Atom quad or octa boards should do, They are very expensive used for their speed but they are fully supported and low power. Some even support ECC memory.

A nitpick is that I don't think any of them have NVMe M.2 slots. Too old.
 
If you move up to ITX platforms some regular Intel processors support ECC. Weirdly many of them are i3 based CPU.
8100 has ECC support, 8300 does not.
9300 has ECC support, 9900 does not.
Exactly opposite of what I would expect. Top of line i9 should have ECC. More stupidness by Intel marketing.
You really need to study the spec sheets.

This is where somebody chimes in how great Quotum boxes are and I roll my eyes.
 
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Phishfry said:
If you move up to ITX platforms some regular Intel processors support ECC. Weirdly many of them are i3 based CPU.
8100 has ECC support, 8300 does not.
9300 has ECC support, 9900 does not.
Exactly opposite of what I would expect. Top of line i9 should have ECC. More stupidness by Intel marketing.
You really need to study the spec sheets.
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The i9s of those generations do not. However, i7s and i9s from 12-14th generation do. They aren't exactly low power, though.
 
I copied most of the BIOS options of my miniPC. I see no timeout options (for what I understand). The pastebin text is hill formatted. I used tabs (4 spaces) so to better read it cut/paste in a text editor ad set tab size = 4.

NiPoGi AK2PLUS AMI BIOS
 
Phishfry said:
Watchdog is what I was talking about and I don't see it in your BIOS settings. So it was just a wild guess.
The setting would be under SouthBridge or SuperIO.
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Yes, I would say watchdog, sorry (I was at phone while posting ...I'm not multitasking like I used to, I'm losing my touch)
 
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