I do place heatsink on one of my rpi which does the torrent downloading. The others are just for media streaming. I'm planning to build a diy cooling system for my rpis and desktop but I guess it will have to wait after cny

Torrent is more reliable than http/ftp download actually, although it taxes your sdcard alot, as well as uses a lot of your cpu power(can't do anything else when my deluge is running)

didn't know about orange pi before you posted it The amount of components that is built in into it is

Just get a decent charger that can provide 2A of power supply reliably. Go for those phone chargers where the phone supports 2A(like Note 3 and etc)

Maxis uses private ip so that is not a choice even with No-IP.

anyone here runs their raspi 24/7? just curious of what cooling solutions that you guys are currently using

okay. Just curious on what do you guys use. anyway, I used to run it without cooling until recently where I put heatsinks on the processor. And the heatsink is damn hot

This post has been edited by wcypierre: May 21 2015, 07:00 PM

If you don't have more than 1 internet connection then you can pretty much forget about it. It is for those with multiple internet(WAN). Like you have one line with Maxis and one line with Unifi. Then you can aggregate(combine) the bandwidth(bonding) for better speed or load balance the bandwidth for fair share, depending on what settings that you wanted to use. Typically these kind of features are only available on mid-high end routers. But since routers are also devices running Linux, so raspi can do it as well. Even your computer can do it too if you install Linux on it and buy some extra network card. For the sake of testing, you can put your 3g dongle, or yes's 4g dongle to test it, but with the limited quota, I don't think you will want to do so.

You can use the link below, commands on Debian should work without issue as Raspbian is Debian based.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrom...+load+balancing

you have two options, which I think are more suitable(easy setup and best performance) depending on your usecase.

If you are the only one using the raspi, put your raspi at your room and buy a raspi compatible wifi adapter(literally plug and play instead of having to configure it) and plug a lan cable to your desktop/switch. Whether you need antenna or not depends on your distance of your raspi with your router.

If you need to share the services(movies, torrent, file sharing and etc) with other family members, then just buy a lan cable and plug it to your router.

If you're going to get a usb wifi adapter, you may need to get a usb powered hub(you need to check on the internet to see if it can be powered from raspi's usb power alone or not). If you're using TP Link 727N, or any MT7601 based usb wifi adapter, you can use the command below

NOTE: for Raspi B, B+ only

It is better for you to get a plug and play one, getting my wifi adapter to work whenever I upgrade my kernel is

nope. typically I use usb ones because I need to record something for fun. But if you wanted something more serious, then I don't know much about it. Probably you can survey around garage sales?

I've tried Logitech before(idk what model is it) and it works out of the box.

UPDATE: I've just tried my unbranded webcam that I bought from taobao and it works too

This post has been edited by wcypierre: May 29 2015, 03:20 AM

I didn't tap into that as my webcam is just a webcam, not those cctv type

OSX should have an Internet sharing feature like Windows and Linux w/ GUI where the DHCP Server is automatically run when u enable internet sharing. Otherwise, u can install a 3rd party dhcp server and give ip to ur raspi

Try and run your parallel program and run top. Look for wa and if it is high then IO is the issue in your setup(I guess IO should be the main issue for distributed or parallel for nodes in the same network)

le me not OSX user.

Anyway, plug ur raspi back to your router and edit this file: /etc/network/interfaces



At your mac, set the ip of your ethernet interface(lan) to
ip: 10.10.10.11
netmask: 255.255.255.0

Plug your raspi to ur mac and access ur raspi via 10.10.10.10

no, as well as you put a private ip that is not used by any devices at your network then it will be okay (i.e 192.168.x.x)
replace x with any number from 2 - 253.

Anyway, the above is just for additional knowledge

Do the "2. Set up the client" where you will set Using DHCP for configuring IPv4 and it should work. Set back your raspi to use dhcp if you've changed it to static ip previously.
http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_...ection_ethernet

Try and see if it works. I don't have a Mac so can't try it out personally

This post has been edited by wcypierre: Aug 5 2015, 08:28 PM

for your 2nd one, when you wanted more accuracy, everything takes a longer time to complete. but eventually as you add more nodes your issue should still be on IO, because as you can see from the prime num test, when the requests is faster, the possibility of each node sending data back to the server at the same time is higher, so if your server node still runs on sd card, or even worse usb thumb drive(for storage of data), you should consider using a normal computer(desktop/laptop) or at least run raspi with HDD as the server node to solve the io issue and you should see a better result.

btw, you should plot it with nodes/time taken, because let's say you have 6 threads, I don't know if you're giving node 1 and spawn 5 threads and node 2 spawn 1 thread or node 1 2 threads, node 2 2 threads, node 3 2 threads, and the combination etc.

I believe this is some academic research stuff for uni/company?

This post has been edited by wcypierre: Aug 5 2015, 08:44 PM

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