Requirements
Connhex Edge is written entirely in Go: this allows us to provide a highly performant executable, with support for multiple architectures and operating systems.
Minimum hardware requirements
Connhex Edge has been developed with common Linux gateways in mind: therefore, it is not suitable for applications based on small microcontrollers.
Connhex Micro is the lightweight version of Connhex Edge.
The Connhex Edge agent requires:
- approximately 30 MB of disk
- starting from 25 MB of RAM
During our stress tests with CPUs whose clock speed was ranging from 800MHz to 1.2GHz, CPU consumption was never more than a couple of percentage points.
Both memory and CPU consumption are dependent on the number of messages processed. To be precise, Connhex Edge internally leverages a message BUS: the more messages on the BUS at any given moment, the higher the required computational capability.
Addons
Different addons have different requirements: as a ballpark figure, budget around 10 MB of disk and RAM for each one.
Compatible OSs
In principle, Connhex Edge should be compatible with every OS supported by Go:
- aix
- android
- darwin
- dragonfly
- freebsd
- illumos
- ios
- js
- linux
- netbsd
- openbsd
- plan9
- solaris
- windows
In practice, if you plan to use Connhex Edge with a different OS than Linux, please get in touch: we want to make sure that everything runs smoothly from the get-going.
Compatible architectures
The same reasoning as for OSs holds. In principle, every architecture supported by Go should be compatible with Connhex Edge:
- 386
- amd64
- arm
- arm64
- mips
- mips64
- mips64le
- mipsle
- ppc64
- ppc64le
- riscv64
- s390x
- wasm
In practice, if you plan to use Connhex Edge with an architecture that is not 386, amd64, arm or arm64 please get in touch.