Faster Rasp pi 3

[Tufferz]

So we use raspberry pi's here at my work, im an IT Administrator and I've compiled some of the software packages we use to work with our system here, telnet, citrix, outlook web mail, etc, and I've decided to play around some more and tune these little suckers to get the most of of them. I've been using the armhf version of Ubuntu Mate and its wonderful.

So the point of this topic is to ask a question. I've already decreased the swappiness to 20 to allow more ram to be used instead of the SD cards, but I've come accross this package called preload. It is suppose to watch things you use consistenly and preload them into ram to make it faster, but I dont seem to notice a difference on the raspberry pi's with performance at all. Could someone perhaps try it and tell me if they notice anything?

P.S. I've been using cromium because the chromium web browser (which is a RAM hogger) offers a lot of apps in the chrome web store that work well for kiosk computers. I dont notice a difference in speed at all.

Thanks!!!

[MaxK1]

Faster SD card (Samsung Evo+)
Overclock
External HDD or SSD

[fruitoftheloom]

So we use raspberry pi's here at my work, im an IT Administrator and I've compiled some of the software packages we use to work with our system here, telnet, citrix, outlook web mail, etc, and I've decided to play around some more and tune these little suckers to get the most of of them. I've been using the armhf version of Ubuntu Mate and its wonderful.

So the point of this topic is to ask a question. I've already decreased the swappiness to 20 to allow more ram to be used instead of the SD cards, but I've come accross this package called preload. It is suppose to watch things you use consistenly and preload them into ram to make it faster, but I dont seem to notice a difference on the raspberry pi's with performance at all. Could someone perhaps try it and tell me if they notice anything?

P.S. I've been using cromium because the chromium web browser (which is a RAM hogger) offers a lot of apps in the chrome web store that work well for kiosk computers. I dont notice a difference in speed at all.

Thanks!!!

SD Cards can make a big difference, depending on your use case: https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/microsd-cards

If you are running RPi's with the BCM2837 SoC's you can boot from USB Mass Storage Devices which should improve I/O !!!

[runboy93]

Try my tweaks, and many places recommend Swappiness 1, when using RPi + SD cards.

There are some logging disable tweaks, increase lifespan of the SD cards.

Most reliable and powerful SD card, Sandisk Extreme Pro. Just be sure you bought it from legal seller.

[DougieLawson]

Stop swapping completely. You should be trying to not overcommit more than 67% of available RAM with a steady workload.