On Wednesday 15 May 2019 11:25:50 am Alan Condit wrote:

> Gene,
>
> I would suggest putting an SSD on one of your Rock64 boards USB3 port.
> It will build at least 4 to 6 times faster than the USB2 port on the
> Rpi 3b+. Just install stretch or what ever your are using on the pi on
> the Rock64 and build away. You can build the debs and then you should
> be able to install the debs on the pi.
>
> Alan

There is something wrong with the rock64's usb3 port so its been slowed 
to usb-2 speeds with the updates as of 6 months or so ago by stretch 
updates. Prior to that it destroyed a spinning rust drive with a usb3 
tail on it, and has since trashed a 60GB ssd here. But that SSD was 
redone to ext4 on the pi, and is still working, its /dev/sda1 in this df 
list on the pi. The sdb is a bigger ssd, 120GB, and has worked on the pi 
for kernel builds, takes it about 4 hours. Works on the pi, isn't even 
recognized by the rock64. ext4 diffs between stretch and jessie on the 
pi I guess. But thats not even a SWAG, just a WAG.

pi@picnc:/etc/apt $ df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root       30387788 11249780  19105240  38% /
devtmpfs          468264        0    468264   0% /dev
tmpfs             472584        0    472584   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs             472584    12540    460044   3% /run
tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs             472584        0    472584   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1     41322    32253      9070  79% /boot
/dev/sda1        1079220        4   1079216   1% /media/boot
/dev/sda3       50132520  3070508  44539168   7% /media/slash
/dev/sdb1       35635848    49128  33753456   1% /media/backupsd
/dev/sdb2       79086196    53272  74972460   1% /media/work
tmpfs              94520        4     94516   1% /run/user/1000

I've unplugged, a month or more ago, the rock64 from the wall and my net. 
It needed a fan to survive a kernel build at J4, j2 was best without the 
fan.  I needed the net cable someplace else. Then needed the extension 
cord too. Since replenished but the SSD is now in the 6040 machine 
called shop which I now need to rename.  I need to get a couple more 
SSD's from newegg and at least 2 more of those usb3-sata thingies from 
pine. The original one is now on the pi's usb2 port. So the rock64 has 
been cold for at least a month and its net cable is now on a redpitaya 
so I can play with a VNA.  I'll note when the rock64 is alive again.
>
> > Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 10:58:03 -0400
> > From: Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Emc-developers] using buildbot on the pi
> > Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> >
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > Can the buildbot be rigged to run on a pi with an SSD on the usb bus
> > for its working storage?  If it can, I might like to see the recipes
> > used to make it on your armhf odroid? I have a 60GB SSD on the pi.
> > And I have built kernels on it. Slow, as in hours, but acts like it
> > worked, no bailouts, so I might as well try to build linuxcnc on it
> > too.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>



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