On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 04:56:52AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:25:39AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:56:16PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:48:54AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > >> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:34:21PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > >>> But setting up autobuilders doesn't require a new infrastructure > > > >>> (and shouldn't require more than half a year). > > > >>> Wasn't the infrastructure a prerequisite for woody and is working? > > > >> It turned out that the central part of the existing infrastructure > > > >> didn't scale up well enough to cope with the new architectures in > > > >> sarge. > > > > There are no new architectures in sarge. > > > > That's right, but the buildd network has to work for both oldstable and > > > stable. potato + woody didn't need as many buildds as woody + sarge > > > will need. > > > 17 -> 22 architectures is an increase, but doesn't look like a very > > serious one. > > There were never security autobuilders for potato; and security and > proposed-updates are separate queues. So in terms of centralized load on > the wanna-build server, this is a jump from 22 (11 stable-security + 11 > proposed-updates) to 33 (11 oldstable-security + 11 stable-security + 11 > proposed-updates; AFAIK there is no oldstable-proposed-updates). > > If testing-security is brought on-line again for etch within the year > following sarge's release (as I certainly hope it will), the peak number of > wanna-build *databases* being served by ftp-master.d.o (saying nothing of > the number of actual buildd connections) would be 66 (oldstable-security + > stable-security + proposed-updates + testing-proposed-updates + > testing-security + unstable, x 11 archs -- not counting prospective archs). >... > So at 44 the server was already at its limit, the release required a 25% > increase in the number of databases (and roughly the same increase in the > number of connections), and etch would have brought us up to 50% over that > limit.
I'm glad to hear that you do no longer plan to drop architectures from etch. :-) > Steve Langasek cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]