Hi, Our salmonella machines have been upgraded, both software and hardwarewise.
The operating system of the Linux machines has been upgraded from Debian 11 to Debian 12. The OpenBSD one has been upgraded from 6.8 to 7.6. All machines now use two CPUs instead of one. The amount of RAM has also doubled (2GB -> 4GB). The hardware upgrade has allowed us to build CHICKEN with -j2 and also run salmonella-epidemy instead of plain salmonella (salmonella-epidemy [0] is the parallel version of salmonella). We now run salmonella-epidemy with two instances of salmonella in parallel. That speeds up salmonella jobs significantly. For example, the non-cached job on x86 used to take more than 23 hours. Now it takes less than 14 hours [1]. One caveat regarding the OpenBSD upgrade: gcc on OpenBSD has been renamed to egcc. Salmonella feeds for jobs on OpenBSD using gcc now have "egcc", not "gcc", in URLs (e.g., [2]). If you are subscribed to salmonella feeds for OpenBSD running gcc, you'll have to update the feed URLs. [0] https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/salmonella#salmonella-epidemy [1] http://salmonella-linux-x86.call-cc.org/chicken-5/clang/linux/x86/2025/03/30/yesterday-diff/ [2] http://salmonella-openbsd-x86-64.call-cc.org/feeds/chicken-5/egcc/openbsd/x86-64/ All the best. Mario -- https://parenteses.org/mario
