Comment by pbnjay
5 days ago
Fun to see the emulation heading up the stack, I wish my employer could afford some real oxide racks!
About 4 months ago, I booted helios + omicron on bare metal on a server in my homelab (following the YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwXtS0-r1uQ). Performance wasn't great on my old hardware (32cores, dual Xeon 2.6ghz, 256gb DDR4), and it used like 30% CPU while idle, but it was fun poking around and playing with the software while I could.
30% is surprising, did you dig into it at all? Sounds like a bunch of active polling or something?
Yeah that's all I could tell at the time. Things were still snappy enough at my low usage, so I just assumed it was my older hardware being a bear. But it was definitely bumping up my power draw unfortunately.