From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: armhf build machines Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:07:27 -0500 Message-ID: <87y4d5zips.fsf@netris.org> References: <20151207111424.6297eea2@debian-netbook> <20151207103646.GA5390@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> <20151207182817.GA24951@jasmine> <87bna1svy1.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:51648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a69Z0-0000Al-Dk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:07:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a69Yx-00077G-6F for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:07:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87bna1svy1.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:03:34 +0100") 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > 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 a= rmhf >>> > build machines, at least in terms of RAM. In terms of freedom the Ras= pberry >>> > Pi 2 isn't great, but in terms of cost its pretty inexpensive. Is th= is >>> > 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 = hydra; >>> 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. I would also add that it should run Libreboot, for which the ASUS KGPE-D16 is currently the best supported server-class motherboard. Thanks, Mark