From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: armhf build machines Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:03:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87bna1svy1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151207111424.6297eea2@debian-netbook> <20151207103646.GA5390@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> <20151207182817.GA24951@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46377) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a64om-0008TR-JU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:03:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a64oj-0007dZ-Sn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:03:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20151207182817.GA24951@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Mon, 7 Dec 2015 13:28:17 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:36:46AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:14:24AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> > The impression I got from looking at the build farm thank-yous on the = website >> > was that we have lowered requirements for what we're looking for in ar= mhf >> > build machines, at least in terms of RAM. In terms of freedom the Rasp= berry >> > Pi 2 isn't great, but in terms of cost its pretty inexpensive. Is this >> > something we'd be interested in? >>=20 >> We are waiting for two new Novena boards that should arrive before the >> end of the year. The current bottleneck is not the build machines, but h= ydra; >> already now the build farm could sustain more jobs in parallel, but we >> artificially limit them. So I would say that there is currently no need >> to add more build machines. This may change if we get a physical machine >> for hydra. > > What sort of machine would be appropriate for hydra? Something rather big: say 8+ cores, 16+G RAM, fast disk of 3T at least. Ludo=E2=80=99.