Re: offload daemon

[James Richardson <james@jamestechnotes.com>]

James Richardson writes:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> James Richardson <james@jamestechnotes.com> skribis:
>>
>>> I am trying to setup an offload daemon.
>>>
>>> I have everything setup correctly (I think ;)
>>>
>>> $ guix offload test completes successfully.
>>>
>>> The offload daemon is actually guix on a foreign distro (Debian sid in
>>> this case).
>>>
>>> Neither guix running on top of a Debian (sid and jessie) nor guixsd seem
>>> to even call out to the offload daemon. All boxen are 64.
>>>
>>> My /etc/guix/machines.scm is here
>>>
>>> (list (build-machine
>>>        (name "thor.lab01.jamestechnotes.com")
>>>        (system "x86_64-linux")
>>>        (host-key "ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIJf0ezYgeVFit40VJwaBEW1dGm2Xz+SHzVmib8IbN58y root@thor")
>>>        (user "guix")
>>>        (speed 1.)
>>>        (private-key
>>> 	(string-append (getenv "HOME")
>>>        	       "/.ssh/identity-for-guix"))))
>>>
>>> Is x86_64-linux the proper system type?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> There are several things to consider here.  By default, guix-daemon
>> creates a single job, so that single job will end up being built
>> locally, unless you spawn, say, two “guix build” commands in parallel
>> (the number of jobs is per client.)
>>
>> Running “guix-daemon --max-jobs=0” should force all builds to be
>> offloaded:
>>
>>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix_002ddaemon.html
>>
>> I *think* “guix build --max-jobs=0” should give the same result.
>>
>> Alternately, if you run “guix build --max-jobs=2”, presumably half of
>> the builds will be offloaded.
>>
>> Let us know if that works for you.
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> I have a permission problem somewhere, I think. If I run as root offload
> works, otherwise it doesn't. Don't really know here to look from here.

Hmm, I move the key pair to /tmp and set the perms to 644 and offloading
works for my regular user... Not quite sure I understand why.