# Optimizing Patchbox for SSH?

**URL:** <https://community.blokas.io/t/optimizing-patchbox-for-ssh/3103>\
**Category:** Patchbox OS\
**Created:** [July 6, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://community.blokas.io/t/optimizing-patchbox-for-ssh/3103 "2021-07-06T08:03:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Zayyan\_Masud](https://community.blokas.io/user_avatar/community.blokas.io/zayyan_masud/32/2093_2.png) [@Zayyan\_Masud](https://community.blokas.io/u/Zayyan_Masud)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://community.blokas.io/t/optimizing-patchbox-for-ssh/3103/1 "2021-07-06T08:03:33Z")

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Is there any way to optimize the patchbox OS for a pi zero. A lot of the VSTs hog all the CPU power in one go. Ideally I shouldn’t be running the OS on a zero. I get that. But is there any way?

The Raspbian OS lite version is only ~400 mb whereas the patchbox img without modep is ~1gb. Could there be services that could be excluded when running modep only and with SSH. I have disabled the GUI env. But anything else that could be disabled for a smoother run?

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**Author:** ![Giedrius](https://community.blokas.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Giedrius](https://community.blokas.io/u/Giedrius)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://community.blokas.io/t/optimizing-patchbox-for-ssh/3103/2 "2021-07-06T08:17:16Z")

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The size of the OS image is not directly related to the performance. You really should just switch to a more powerful Pi version for audio effect duties. 🙂 I’d recommend Pi 3 or higher.