neofetch is no longer in the fedora package repos. had to install fastfetch instead
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Do I spy a 7950X @ 6.07 GHz? 
That seems rather extraordinary…
Edit: Apparently not out of the realm of possibility…
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/xwqkpg/what_is_max_boost_frequency_7950x_can_maintain/
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It’s absolutely not getting anywhere near 6GHz, it’s currently sharing a slim 240mm radiator with the 4090.
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Got a M4 Mac mini before the holidays but it was a little underpowered for my purposes. A week ago I got this and have been putting it through it’s paces…
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How did you end up using so much RAM on LFS? That’s insane. Are you using a GUI there, or are you just ssh’ed into a headless pi? Madness!
That’s a headless pi. It’s a RPI 5 so they use mini micro HDMI cables, and I’m too cheap to buy a set. I do have a serial cable connected.
Edit: I looked on the shelf and I do have a pair of micro HDMI cables… I must have tried to plug in a mini USB plug into the micro HDMI port in a drunken rage, and thought I didn’t have the right cable.
What’s using so much memory on a headless pi? Genuinely curious.
I’ll have to check when I boot it up tomorrow. I didn’t strip out the debug symbols when I built the OS, so maybe that is taking up memory. I also built it with systemd, so maybe my logs are filling up memory before writing to the disk?
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I have 2 RPI4’s that are running debian and they are using 127MiB and 132MiB. They basically monitor UPSs, so there isn’t much running on them.
I have another pi 02w that is running a meshtastic node on debian- 107 MiB out of 416 Mib.
I’ll take a closer look tomorrow…
My rpi3 (alpine) uses 46 MB of RAM and has 89 MB shared (free -h) and htop shows about 136MB utilized. My router using a full-fledged distro does 171MB used and 540K shared (weirdly enough, htop shows 100 MB used only).
I checked fastfetch output, I don’t trust it. It shows the whole amount of RAM used and cached. I suspect LFS will be using a lot less than my router does (maybe not by much, because of systemd, but should be lower, especially after you remove the debug flags, if you plan on recompiling).
Anyway, cool setup!
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Is it aarch64 or armv7a though? 
It’s
I have the newer revision of rpi 3, the 1.2 IIRC.
That shouldn’t matter, all rpi3 should work with either image, which is why I’m asking (armv7 would also explain lower mem footprint). But tbh I think it’s just
Well, I stripped out the debug symbols and it looks like it’s a combination of fastfetch reporting odd numbers and systemd taking up some memory.
htop reports 107M, and 25M of that is journald and resolved.
I don’t think I’m curious enough to build pilfs using sys-V just to see if it really does use less memory… unless I automate the build parts so that I can use it for benchmarking.
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Off-topic pi power rant
I haven’t looked at the rpi 5 since it was released. I knew the power supply was 5V 5A, but I kinda forgot about it. Then when I looked online if USB PD was a thing for it, I found out… it wasn’t. Powering this thing with an unofficial brick (which would happen if you’re running on a DC system) would throttle the amps on the Pi.
The only way to power it and get its full benefits is by using a direct 5V PSU (like a step-down converter from 12V) wired to it (I think to the GPIO) and using the cmdline.txt file to force max amps on it. That kinda sucks and it’d be interesting how you’d deal with cases like the argone one.
My own rpi4 has been having serious issues with powering its ethernet port from an anker powerdrive pd+ 2, which spits out 5V 3A on the USB C port, where I connected the pi to. IDK if it’s not negotiating its amps as it should (I haven’t tried the original AC brick yet). I don’t wanna think about powering the rpi5… maybe I’ll need to do the same hack with the cmdline.txt on my own pi.
As for step-down converters, that wouldn’t be much different than powering an odroid xu4, except for the fact that the xu4 has a normal 5521 barrel jack, instead of usb c. At that point, unless I want the pi hardware ecosystem, I don’t think I’m getting a rpi5. I do kinda want a sbc I could run android on and remote into when I’m away from home.
