Questions tagged [performance]
Questions about software, hardware or network performance. Please use as a supplement for other, more specific tags.
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RPi extremely slow download speed
I am trying to set up my Raspberry Pi as a small home server, and I am having issues with my download speed. My Windows PC is getting up to 6mb/s, the Raspberry Pi is doing a dist-upgrade, and is ...
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What kind of data rate can I expect from the Raspberry Pi's MPEG Hardware codec?
What kind of data rate can I expect the hardware coded to decode smoothly?
While playing a video on VLC Player, I can choose Tools > Media Information > Statistics Tab Here I can see the bit ...
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How to change the default governor?
I want to change the default governor on my pi from ondemand to performance. Is there a way of doing this?
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Finding cards optimized for random read/write
In a recent article on the official Pi site the authors mention that a class 4 SD card which is optimised for random read/write can be faster than a class 6 or even a class 10 card which is optimised ...
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When does the OS kill an application?
I have an application which polls a bunch of servers every few minutes. To do this, it spawns one thread per server to poll (15 servers) and writes back the data to an object, however sometimes the ...
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Max MB/s down from BT Sync?
The maximum speed of my Pi can get is about 1.8 MB/s down when using BitTorrent Sync. On the same network, my MacBook Air is BT Sync at 9 to 10 MB/s down.
512MB model
no swap
both Pi and MacBook Air ...
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Image processing on embedded system - raspberry PI or other board?
I need to write a program that does some LK optical flow calculations on an USB webcam feed using OpenCV. This has to be on an embedded system.
I currently own a Raspberry PI revision A coupled with ...
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How the usage of ZRam module in Raspberry Pi Kernel improves performance?
zRam increases performance by avoiding paging on disk and instead uses a compressed block device in RAM in which paging takes place until it is necessary to use the swap space on the hard disk drive
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Can't connect RFCOMM socket: Permission denied [closed]
00:1A:7D:11:C0:66 is a headset.
sdptool search --bdaddr 00:1A:7D:11:C0:66 HS
results in
Searching for HS on 00:1A:7D:11:C0:66 ...
Service Name: Headset
Service RecHandle: 0x10001
Service Class ID ...
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Playing M4V files (H264) via Wifi on iOS using the RPi as an Access Point doesn't work
I want to play videos, located on an USB disk which is connected via a powered USB hub, on my iPad(s). I converted these videos from .MKV to M4V (H264 codec) with HandBrake on Windows 7 using the ...
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is 1.3mB/s as good as it gets for transferring files to a NTFS drive attached to the Pi via a samba share
I have just set up my pi with a couple of different distros (first the squeeze that came installed on it, then the wheezy (but that wouldn't initialise the USB drive ie light never came on and pi ...
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Striping down for java/swing only thin client
Very important note: This same question is also asked at the raspberry pi forums. I guarantee to copy answers from here to there with correct credentials.
Hello everyone
I am currently developing a ...
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Does dust accumulation on raspberry pi causes heating problem
My raspberry pi is placed where a lot of dust accumulates on the surface.I recently checked and there was a layer of dust settled on it.
I cleaned up the device and restarted it.
To my surprise, Its ...
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CUPS is too slow, how can I make it faster?
I'm using CUPS for my Samsung CLP-315. It works very well, but it is too slow. It normally takes five minutes or more to print a single page (from pdf).
When it's printing, gs is taking 100% of the ...
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How do I improve speed of photo/image resize? (~8MB to ~100KB)
I'm building a program which reads photos off an SD Card then resize the images and upload them to Flickr (note, it's a second SD Card reader, not the one on-board)
The photos are high-resolution JPG'...
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Can the original StarCraft be played on LAN with a Raspberry Pi?
Update! StarCraft has been ported to ARM:
Reddit discussion
Hacker News discussion
Geek.com article
Download: http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=package.starcraft
So, I've unaccepted ...
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Would Scrapy Be Ok To Run on A Raspberry Pi?
I'm thinking of getting a raspberry pi to do some scraping work so i can go out while everything continues to run while at home. Is there any reason why Scrapy would be a bad idea for a Raspberry Pi ...
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Expected User Limit of IRC Server on Pi 512 MB?
Does anyone have a clue of the maximum number of users RPi 512 MB could handle if running an IRC server? I'm just looking for an approximate number, is it 100, 10'000 or millions?
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Hadoop on the Pi
I've seen a couple of articles claiming to build a "super computer" using several Raspberry Pis. I know the processing power of the Raspberry Pi is relatively slow so you're not going to be simulating ...
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Performance difference Raspbian versus Gentoo
Is there a measurable difference in CPU performance between Gentoo and Raspbian?
With Gentoo you use different compiler flags and with the USE flags compile only what you need. In Raspbian all ...
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Where is the bottleneck of web browse speed on raspberry pi?
On a Model B 512 MB Pi with Raspbian “wheezy”, I have tried Midori, Chromium and Iceweasel. When the web page gets larger, loading is slow, even after I overclocked it to 1 GHz. On an Android phone ...
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Comparison of Python Gui performances
I am building a data visualization application. It is a multithreaded Gui without user interaction.
I have 24 widgets that shall be updated any 100ms. 16 widgets are PyCairo rectangles and the other 8 ...
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SMB performance issues on Raspbmc
I'm having some serious performance issues (i think) using raspbmc to stream videos/music from my windows XP machine.
The setup is as follows:
In the attic : Windows XP P4 3.4Ghz 4Gb ram, edimax ...
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Will a Raspberry Pi perform well with XBMC and many movies?
I have a library with more than 1000 movies and I'm searching for a cheap but good performance media centre system.
I've been using a Xtreamer Prodigy until now but it's firmware's a little slow (...
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Benchmark USB HDD
I'm using an external USB 2.0 HDD to extend the storage of the Pi which holds my movie-collection.
I'm experiencing problems with skips when playing HD movies (720p / 1080p). Also, when transferring ...
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How Viable is an RPI Laptop?
I've been seriously looking into making one of the Raspberry Pi Laptops that have been floating around using the Motorola Atrix Lapdock solution found here and here.
The whole reason for doing this ...
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Is Pi powerful enough for an oscilloscope project?
My goal is to make Pi based instruments, starting with an oscilloscope. So I read answers to
What Analog to Digital Converters Are Available For RPI?
How can I connect an analog to digital converter ...
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Is zero semblance of Xorg rendering performance normal? [closed]
I'm trying to setup a simple little configuration running a dedicated piece of software to display slides. Unfortunately the software uses some OpenGL extensions. No 3D mind you, just some basic font ...
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What speed can I expect from the hardware-H264-encoding?
I stumbled over the Wikipedia-article that the Broadcom GPU has hardware support for encoding H.264/AVC, not only de-coding.
I also found an article where someone gave an example using ffmpeg to ...
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Industrial applications
I've been wondering what's the durability of the RPI and the maximum temperature it can operate on. Is it possible to use it to replace some industrial computers?
I'm thinking set-top boxes for ...
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X forwarding and GPU memory allocation
I run my Raspberry Pi headless and typically use X forwarding to run applications.
I'm wondering what split I should use for allocating the RAM. I am not sure whether it is the server or the client'...
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What is the lowest power, most compatible, most compact usb wi-fi adaptor that works out of the box with the Raspberry Pi?
It seems that several people (myself included) are having great difficulty getting different wi-fi adapters to work reliably with the Pi. Some adaptors seem to require excessive amounts of power and a ...
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omxplayer: h.264 bitrates and encoding settings for stutter-free playback
We just received six Raspberry Pi boards with 512mb ram and plan to use them for HDMI playback.
Initial tests were working great with omxplayer, but we are experiencing extreme stuttering issues for ...
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How can I stress test my Raspberry Pi
I recently picked up a battery powered USB cell phone charger and I'm running some tests to see what kind of battery life I will get. Right now I'm just testing at Idle. I want to also run a test ...
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Usb disk over network - performance
Using a simple setup with PI as a NAS, with an attached USB disk, like this:
[RPI] (USB) -> Ethernet
-> USB 2.0 Disk
Of course both network and disk access share the same USB port, but ...
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SD card write speed seems to be 14 times slower than read speed
I was writing to an SD card this evening from a Mac Book Air internal card reader, and the performance reported was 1.4 MB/sec. I later read tested it on the Raspberry Pi and got 20 MB/sec. ...
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Why does the Raspberry Pi need a MPEG-2 licence?
Since August 24 2012, it is possible to buy a licence to hardware-decode MPEG-2 videos.
Here are my questions:
Does it mean that, without this licence, the RPi cannot handle at all MPEG-2 video, or ...
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Could raspberry be a good choice for home monitoring?
I'm not sure if this is the correct thread to ask but I need to start somewhere
What I'm looking to do is small box computer that I can mount on wall near the exit from my house that would monitor ...
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How do I connect a DS18B20?
I'm trying to connect a DS18B20 to the GPIOs. I have successfully done so electronically, but I could only code the reset function because it's not that time critical. It is OK for that function to ...
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Does Raspberry Pi runs Minecraft and Netbeans 7.2?
I have a computer with 512MB of RAM Memory, CPU Intel Celeron 1.60GHz and a 80GB HD. After the new Minecraft update to 1.3.X, Minecraft don't run on my computer any more even on Windows XP and Lubuntu ...
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Why is my SD card slow?
My SD card seems to be running slow. I have an ADATA 16 GB SDHC Class 10 card. I checked the compatibility list which lists a card with similar specifications, and it states that it is "working". Even ...
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Can the Raspberry Pi be used as a media center?
I am looking for a simple solution to play videos and music stored on my NAS.
I've found the Raspberry Pi and projects like OpenElec and RaspBMC which will run XMBC on the board.
My problem is that I'...
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What is the highest performing hardware configuration?
I know that exact benchmark numbers will vary between manufacturers, but in general if you only consider higher end flash drives, SD cards, and USB HDDs and your Raspberry Pi is connected to a network ...
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Hard-float and performance
Ever since the official Raspbian image came out, there has been much talking about hard-float - often cited as one of the most prominent Raspbian features, promising "tremendous performance boost".
I ...
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How do I determine the current MHz?
I've been trying to get an accurate reading of my Raspberry Pi's MHz, since I overclocked it in /boot/config.txt
My /boot/config.txt is as following:
pi@raspbmc:~$ cat /boot/config.txt
arm_freq=900
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How do I turn on Level 2 (L2) cache?
It has been suggested to me that the L2 cache is turned off by default on the Pi, and that turning it on could improve CPU performance (probably at the expense of GPU performance). I'm keen to explore ...
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Why does python run relatively slowly?
I've been benchmarking the Pi on some of my simulation codes, relative to a couple of laptops I have. My codes tend to be floating point intensive, so I've been using Raspbian (which turns out to be ...
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How can I use a USB HDD to extend the life of my SD Card?
How can I set up a USB HDD to extend the life of my SD Card and maximize the performance of my Raspberry Pi?
Related: How can I extend the life of my SD card?
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Can I speed up web browsing on the Raspberry Pi?
Browsing the web using Midori on the Raspberry Pi feels very slow.
I appreciate that the speed at which a web page will load is determined by a number of factors including: the speed of the network ...
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Is there anything I can do to improve boot speed?
I love my Pi, but it takes a considerable time to boot. If I want to use it as a Media Centre, it's quite important that it powers up quickly.
Are there any steps I can take to improve boot ...
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