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Banana Pi BPI-RV2 RISC-V gateway board

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44 points ofrzeta | 2 comments | 19 Apr 25 11:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.563s | source
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rwmj ◴[21 Apr 25 09:23 UTC] No.43749893[source]▶
512 MB of RAM is low, even for a board intended as a router/gateway.
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antonkochubey ◴[21 Apr 25 09:46 UTC] No.43750045[source]▶
MikroTik RouterOS 7, for example, runs perfectly fine on devices with 32 MB of RAM. Not everything has to be bloated with hundreds of megabytes of Javascript running on top of Node.
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alexjplant ◴[21 Apr 25 12:26 UTC] No.43751166[source]▶
> Not everything has to be bloated with hundreds of megabytes of Javascript running on top of Node.

Is that all you think memory is for? What if somebody wants to run an MITM or DNS-based content blocker for LAN clients? I can imagine loading URL blocklists into RAM for efficient evaluation taking more than the 16-24MB RAM available in the scenario you're talking about, for instance. Or what if somebody wants to fire up a NAS with an old spinning disk and use RAM for write caching?

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MisterTea ◴[21 Apr 25 14:58 UTC] No.43752710[source]▶
> Or what if somebody wants to fire up a NAS with an old spinning disk and use RAM for write caching?

Then this hardware is not for you. Not everything has to line up with your expectations. Plus this thing is like $35, what do you expect? There are other capable systems like the solidrun honeycomb.

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1. alexjplant ◴[21 Apr 25 15:19 UTC] No.43752943[source]▶
I never said that it had to [meet my expectations] or that it's optimal or that this hardware is or isn't for me. I was pointing out that saying 512MB of RAM is for Node apps is a straw man.

What's with the hostility in this thread?

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2. MisterTea ◴[21 Apr 25 15:30 UTC] No.43753083[source]▶
There is no hostility.