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TomKatt:

--- Quote from: Karel on March 03, 2023, 11:39:41 am ---
--- Quote from: TomKatt on March 03, 2023, 11:18:59 am ---But try and run AutoCAD on it and expect strange hangs and crashes.  In fairness, I think AutoCAD has always favored Intel.  Still, sometimes you need to mate the platform to the applicatiion.

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A graphics card (driver) issue seems more likely here.

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That was my first thought as well, but the issues remained despite multiple drivers tested.  For better or worse we tend to standardize on Nvidia RTX A series workstation cards, so I don't have a Radeon with sufficient horsepower to test.  And fwiw error logs show the AutoCAD applications as those crashing.
paulca:

--- Quote from: TomKatt on February 24, 2023, 12:59:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on February 24, 2023, 11:12:02 am ---RPi has faced shortages well before Chipageddon.  There is an argument that it is a little underpriced given the demand they receive for the product but it was originally an educational 'toy' and it's since been taken up by loads of SMEs as an easy way to embed Linux into X (whether or not it really requires it.)

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Indeed.  It seems that many Pi projects could be more economically implemented with a ucontroller of some kind.  And many other projects don't even use I/O, so you might as well just use a cheap SFF pc - at today's Pi prices, you could pick up some old Dell or HP mini box for cheaper.

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RPi's are a pain to manage if you don't set them up with an external SSD.  Those general purpose OSs constantly writing and rewriting garbage to the disk and all.

The argument they will reply with against the Dell or HP eWaste option is the RPi's idle power draw of around 1W (with no display or USB connected).  Yet they constantly whine about performance, memory and lack of broadcom acceleration for anything worth accelerating.

Last PI I used was a PI3 and while it touts CPU and memory stats that look admirable...  It has lousy IO capabilities.  It will play a 1080p movie over network fine, but once you start cue skipping forward and back and put the IO under some load it bottle necks and dies forcing you to let it sit and get through the back log of network file seek requests.
Karel:
I use Libreelec (Kodi) on a RPI3 practically every night and I never experienced problems when going back and forward,
skipping scenes or whatever. (The video files are stored on another pc connected via a wired LAN and WiFi is disabled)
Also, contrary to what other people report, I never had SD-card problems but I do use highspeed (class 10) quality cards
from Sandisk. Also, I never hard shutdown the RPI. I connected a gpio-pin to a bi-stable relay that switches of the power
automatically when the shutdow sequence has completed.
paulca:
Tell the electric company not to hard shut it down.

You obviously haven't used a PI long enough with the SD card.  Quality or not.  In daily use an SD card lasts no longer than 2 years.  That's how long they last in a PI and how long they last in a dashcam.  They tend not to fail gracefully either.  I use either Samsung or San disk cards.

On media, it was the RPI as media server.  It could not handle the multi-threaded SMB protocol used underneath.  Fine for playback but even skipping and flicking through MP3s it would bottle neck.

And Kodi on a RPI3 and you say you have never experienced problems.  That tells me your tolerance for performance.  I couldn't use Kodi.  I can't stand waiting a second for every damn click.

In fairness, Kodi runs like shit on a modern PC as well.
Karel:

--- Quote from: paulca on March 05, 2023, 03:07:45 pm ---Tell the electric company not to hard shut it down.

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It happened a couple of times yes. So far no damaged cards here. Probably I was lucky  8)


--- Quote ---You obviously haven't used a PI long enough with the SD card.  Quality or not.  In daily use an SD card lasts no longer than 2 years.  That's how long they last in a PI and how long they last in a dashcam.  They tend not to fail gracefully either.  I use either Samsung or San disk cards.

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My RPI3 is running daily for at least double than that, so far without SD-card failure.
So, again, probably I'm lucky. Or maybe you shouldn't buy your SD-cards from shady sources and risk you get an
imitation card  8)


--- Quote ---On media, it was the RPI as media server.  It could not handle the multi-threaded SMB protocol used underneath.  Fine for playback but even skipping and flicking through MP3s it would bottle neck.

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That's a different use case. I use the RPI3 as a client, not as a server.


--- Quote ---And Kodi on a RPI3 and you say you have never experienced problems.  That tells me your tolerance for performance.  I couldn't use Kodi.  I can't stand waiting a second for every damn click.

In fairness, Kodi runs like shit on a modern PC as well.

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I'm very satisfied about how Kodi performs on my RPI3. Having said that, I only use the basic features, no exotic or
complex setup, apart from having added a hi-fi stereo DAC and an IR-sensor & Lirc for the remote control.

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