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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: Re: Substitutes and multiple servers
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:37:41 -0400
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> Awesome!  This makes 'guix publish' a bit more practical, and
>> supporting multiple substitution servers in the future will really let
>> 'guix publish' shine since you'd be able to use your friend's guix
>> machines to supplement the builds available on hydra.gnu.org.
>
> Yup!
>
> Also, =E2=80=98guix publish=E2=80=99 now scales better:
>
>   94080a7 * publish: Do not load archive content in memory.
>   7f23fb0 * publish: Serve /nar requests in a separate thread.

Great hacks!  Shame about the Guile HTTP server issue, though.

> I=E2=80=99m thinking of running it on one of the powerful build machines,=
 like
> hydra.gnunet.org, as a backup people could use.
>
> Thoughts?

Sounds like a really good idea to me, if for no other reason than my
selfish desire for more real world testing of 'guix publish'. :)

- Dave