Hii :) Just as friendly reminder… Don’t put a LVM system on an old Raspberry pi 3B+ !! I solved the issue when putting everything on a simple EXT4 filesystem. Now I’m able to download, upload, check integrity and resolve DNS without it giving a sweat.
Hello sorry to pin you but I fixed and found the culprit: putting an LVM ext4 filesystem on an old raspberry pi 3B+ was not the brightest idea I guess… After putting everything on a simple EXT4 partition I’m able to download, check integrity and resolve DNS without giving a sweat !
Thanks again and have a nice whatever you’re in right now :).
Ohh daaamn… I lost my answer while doing something else on my phone… Fuck !
I didn’t expect to much for such an old device, however It should be capable to hold a small piHole (3 devices connected to the dns resolution) and a moderate qbit installation.
While uploading works wihout any I/O choking on the HDD on 100 torrents (sometimes uploads upto 10MB/s, which is the pi’s limitation…) It can’t handle a single download file? And checking the file integrity just makes the DNS resolution on piHole timeout ! That’s kinda frustrating, because from the spec side It should be capable :/.
I don’t think It’s CPU or ram limited, with TOP/HTOP it is kinda getting a spike when checking or downloading a file, but nothing that would completely stop piHole dns resolution, this is bound to I/O choking on the HDD, which is even more frustrating, cause there’s nothing I can do about it I guess? The HDD health is okay, it’s a repurposed WD Red with acceptable SMART results. Also the pi is running with the correct cable I got with.
If it’s CPU bound you could try deprioritizing qbit and upping the priority of pi hole.
Even if it’s not CPU bound I will give this a try, didn’t know that was possible, thanks for the insight !! Also while rewritting my response, I though of maybe to increase the swap file/partition, and I’m not even sure I have one, so I have 2 things to try out when home !!
Thanks for your anwser !
Yeaaah, that’s my point… It should be capable but it chokes on a single download file while uploading works without even giving a sweat.
lots of bad experiences with qbt @ pi3,
Yeah so it’s not just me. It’s kinda sad I though I could use it as a low power mini qbittorrent server and DNS service.
I guess it will only run piHole then ! Thanks for your personal experience.
Tech literates people tend to be more aware, but people who don’t even know what OS means/is…
I’m the only person in my family that has some IT knowledge and believe it or not, everyone in my family things that way… While swipping, scrolling, posting on GAFAMs and publicly exposing all their life ^^. In my friends circle it’s the same… Those who don’t know what an OS is respond the same way.
So it’s mostly the lack of knowledge of what privacy is, in the digital world… Because in real life most people put curtains behind their windows, so people won’t snoop on your hidden secrets.
BTW, I ran Freelancer (old Microsoft space game !) and I was impressed how well it worked and ran on lutris and all the magic arround it.
Nowadays, people get the habit that everything works out of the box, they just have to “press, swipe, click, that’s it”. Technology litteracy is taking a big hit on newer generation, while being flooded with some kind of “Artificial Intelligence” to do their homework… 😮💨
Actually, there are ways for home customers to replace their XGS-PON to use your own hardware (Orange, Free, SFR…) And some other cool stuff and very helpful info at lafibre.info forum !
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My god how many times have I been through this… Living with debloated phone, hardened browser, VPN, Linux, sure isn’t easy every day :/// !
I totally agree, It shouldn’t be soo hard to value your own data/privacy and sometimes it feels like I’m fighting the wind.
Britta filters can reduce water hardness to a little margin but I wouldn’t bet on those to reduce water hardness…
Better have specific filters under the sink to reduce those carbonates or if you have some money to spare (~1000$) a specific machine directly connected to your water income in the basement !
When clicking send on their website, I get no visual feedback if it’s actually send or not…
I think (I will not dive this rabbit hole right now haha) it’s only related to the pi 3 archtitectur (shared USB bus with the ethernet controller?).
Yeah it probably added a lot of overhead and I/O bottleneck due not beeing optimized for it. But I’m not sure this is applicable in a more conventional setup !
I have an older laptop (+/- 10 years old) which run nicely with LVM-ext4 and does not hang or choks on piHole + qbittorrent in a similar setup.
Guess, I have to keep it simple on my pi 3, But happy it works as expected now !