OK, Paul Hedderley started setting up a build machine for emdebian to use for runnning buildds, plugging in scratchbox hardware and as an archive of our resulting distro(s).
But he needs to know how much space to allocate for the build machine and archive machine. (they may actually be UML instances). I don't really have a good feel for this. So, anyone care to say how much RAM and disk a buildd needs, and how much archive we need? I guessed 64MB RAM, 3GB for a buildd (more RAM is good of course) and 'at least 3 arches-worth' of archive space: because were only going to be doing about 3 arches for now (i386, arm, powerpc, maybe mips if anyone gets enthused), and we're not going to be doing all the packages in Debian, and ours should be significantly smaller anyway, so that's probably space for 6 arches. But how big is one arch in the archive these days? (cc:ed to steve mac, who'll probably know) Approximations are fine - just some numbers to give paul. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
