On 10/09/2020 15:53, druck wrote:
> On 10/09/2020 12:47, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Looking at my 'I only do one thing' Pi running 94 different processes,
>> realistically how many of them do I need? And how could I get rid of
>> them?
>>
>> I want to examine the pi as a reasonably real-time signal processing
>> unit.
>>
>> I don't need disk access except to load the code. I may not need
>> network access. I don't need logging. I sure don't need systemd. I
>> don't need a gui.
>>
>> I just want to run one high priority daemon and one lower priority
>> demon, with shared memory between them...is there something simpler
>> than Linux? More like e.g. DOS?
>
> If you want to cut out all of that, then you probably don't need the Pi
> at all. Have a look at an Arduino, you can either program bare metal, or
> if you don't want to do your own scheduling run under FreeRTOS.
>
> ---druck
>
I need a fair bit of RAM and a pretty fast floating point processor. But
Arduino has some definite pluses.


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