AVX: List of CPUs incomplete

[necrevistonnezr]

Since the thread is now locked:

I believe the list of CPUs supporting AVX is incomplete; e.g. Intel's N-Series (e.g. N100 / N200; very interesting due to their low power consumption) does not appear in the list but supports AVX: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/231803/intel-processor-n100-6m-cache-up-to-3-40-ghz.html

This list seems more comprehensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#CPUs_with_AVX

[girish]

My understanding is most reasonable CPUs these days have AVX . So far, I am aware only of netcup having some very old servers without AVX support. Don't think we have seen any other provider without AVX.

[necrevistonnezr]

Then my Intel Celeron N3000 in my NUC has definitively reached the status "unreasonable" - I might actually be forced to replace my NUC.

[girish]

@necrevistonnezr oh wow, that was released only in 1 April 2015 . I wonder what research went into MongoDB's requirement of AVX.

BTW, one potential idea is that we run the platform without mongodb on non-AVX CPUs. So, apps that need mongodb cannot be installed. Technically, this is possible but we haven't considered this because we always thought AVX support is common by now.

[necrevistonnezr]

@girish Don't go into too much trouble if mine is just a fringe case. The little machine has been running 24/7 since - indeed - 2015 (without giving me much trouble) but I'd like to replace at some point in time, in any event, just to pre-empt a hardware failure....

[David 0]

@girish said in AVX: List of CPUs incomplete:

BTW, one potential idea is that we run the platform without mongodb on non-AVX CPUs. So, apps that need mongodb cannot be installed.

Is there already a list, what apps are affected?

(my netcup VPS 500 G10s does not support AVX)

[girish]

@David-0 Just did a quick search, maybe I miss one or two:

• meemo
• rocket.chat
• ackee
• wekan
• nodebb

We have lots of installations of wekan/nodebb/rocket.chat ...

[lukas]

@David-0 said in AVX: List of CPUs incomplete:

my netcup VPS 500 G10s does not support AVX

yes, you need a "root server" at netcup

[eddowding]

So if we DON'T have AVX and aren't using Mongo, do we have to manually update apps?

[girish]

@eddowding no, app updates should happen as always. But unfortunately, there is a bug which I think you hit . https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/10699/no-automatic-app-updates-with-pending-box-update/ . Can you try the patch suggested in that thread?