Sunday, October 19, 2025

Running slowly

Hot weather has returned so the farm is working in between.

As well as the weather the Raspberry Pi foundation released Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian Trixie on the 1st of October. I have been updating the support nodes to see how things work out. The only major change is the swap space is now 2GB and they're using zram for swap. I've updated all the Pi5's but have yet to update the Pi4 compute nodes.

Another quirk I found was the "lite" version doesn't include nfs-common so after getting stuck I found out you have to install it before you can use an nfs mounted drive. The full version or Raspberry Pi OS (ie with a desktop) includes nfs-common.