Lennert Buytenhek a écrit : > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:27:04AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > >>>>> - tofee: up, building packages, sometimes stable-security. >>>>> >>>>> I think it is time to changes things. Our faster build daemons have a >>>>> 233MHz CPU with 256MB of RAM, while there are way faster ARM CPU today. >>>> How much faster is the fastest available ARM CPU compared to toffee? >>> As in, the fastest ARM CPU that exists in the world? As far as >>> I know, that would be the 1.2 GHz Intel IOP342 (dual core.) >> Are these publicly available and affordable? > > I think dev boards for the IOP342 are around $1600 if you buy them > from Intel (will have to double-check that.) I have an 800MHz > version that I originally got for kernel work, and I think Martin > Michlmayr has an 800MHz version as well. > > A 600MHz IOP80219 board (in the form of the Thecus n2100) is about > $270 (USD) on newegg.com with 128M RAM (regular DDR DIMM socket, > upgradable up to 512M) and no disk (takes two SATA disks.) The > machine that Bill Gatliff made available is of this type. > > >> If so, let's replace the existing seven buildds with two IOP342; >> it'll reduce the administrative overhead for DSA/buildd admins > > Is the number of build machines the current problem, though? > > If you never fix machines when they break, having 7 machines is better > than having 2 machines, because if you lose 1 out of 2 machines you lose > half of your build capacity, whereas if you lose 1 out of 7 machines, > it's not a really big deal.
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