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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably speed. I find pihole really slow, and I’m running it as a VM on a Xeon server.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Talking about a Xeon CPU in a context vacuum is like talking about a car.
    A car is anything between 100€ rust bowl on wheels and a multi million € vehicle.

    So either we need a benchmark score like Passmark (or other platform of choice) score for single and multicore or your cpu model.
    Giving a piHole VM 1 or 2 cores from a CPU with a single core performance equal to a Raspberry Pi 3 is quite obvious why it isnt performing as well as say a shiny new Ryzen 7900X.

    Context is key.

    Mine runs in docker with full hardware access (no cpu/ram limits) on a i5-1135g7. The performance is (to me) pretty good.
    BUT I only tried a comparison with unbound which gave me so-so results.

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