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Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

jackarnd — Fri, 12 May 2017 13:35:32 GMT

Hello,I just wanted to share the project I am currently working on. This is to add to the project of Kevin Roast about Alfresco Share 5 running on a Raspberry Pi he was at the moment trying to run a Share instance on a Raspberry Pi 1 model B so it was pretty slow but now that the Raspberry Pi 3 is a

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

kevinr1 — Fri, 12 May 2017 13:57:49 GMT

Hi Jack,

That's fantastic work! I have to say I never envisaged putting all of Alfresco onto the Pi because of the memory/CPU requirements - but that was a few years ago on a single core CPU Pi with only 512MB - now with quad-core CPUs and more memory it appears to be possible! That is amazing work and thanks for sharing it!

Cheers,

Kevin

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

jackarnd — Fri, 12 May 2017 14:18:58 GMT

Hi !

Thank you ! Yes it has given me some trouble at first because of the lack of physical RAM but after some tickling, it now works properly and it feels amazing I must say !
Thank you again, and your welcome !

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

kgastaldo — Mon, 15 May 2017 11:58:36 GMT

Thanks for sharing! I'll move this to featured content, so hopefully it'll be a bit more discoverable to the community.

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

jackarnd — Mon, 15 May 2017 13:18:38 GMT

Sure, no problem !

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

shyam42 — Tue, 16 May 2017 05:06:54 GMT

It's cool...

Can you explain What we can do with this..?

Where is useful in real life...?

What are the extra thinks you can do with this which you can't do on normal alfresco installed on PC.

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

kevinr1 — Tue, 16 May 2017 07:22:03 GMT

This is an engineering challenge and intellectual exercise rather than real-world useful it's like trying to run Alfresco on a cell phone class computer! Amazing stuff, not going to displace AWS as your hosting option that is for sure

There's nothing really extra you can do on it, less really, except perhaps running Alfresco on a 5V power supply is pretty unique!

Kevin

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

shyam42 — Tue, 16 May 2017 07:36:39 GMT

Ok Got it...

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

jackarnd — Tue, 16 May 2017 10:07:41 GMT

Yes, there is no extra stuff you can do, it's just about the portability of a Raspberry and since it works fine (a bit slow but I guess it could get a lot faster with other cheap -nix boards with more RAM) it could be a good option for my project directed to very small businesses..

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

rmeske — Thu, 18 May 2017 20:06:02 GMT

This is an interesting exercise. Now that you have it working on a Raspberry, the next logical step would be a Raspberry Cluster Pi (pun intended).

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

jackarnd — Fri, 19 May 2017 07:57:23 GMT

Nice pun ahah Well That's a good idea I'll try to do it if I have the opportunity to have more than one Raspberry Pi in my hands !

Re: Alfresco on Raspberry Pi

antoine_chauve — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 05:45:14 GMT

Hello, good job Jack !

I managed to install Alfresco on RPI 3 on a simplier way, without mvn build : i downloaded the binaries for manual install then applied the alfresco tutorial.

All is working fine ( SOLR, ZRAM etc), it's slow at first load, but faster after. For better performance, i put postgresql on another RPI and increased the JVM size to 640MB.