On 10/30/2014 11:19 AM, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 29/10/14 19:03, Toralf Förster wrote: >> I own a dedicated server (i-3770, 4 real + 4 HT cores w/ 3.4 GHz) >> with 16 GB RAM and 2 x 3 TB hard disk, 1 GBit/s network. >> >> Currently 7.6 cpus do run idle at 1.6 GHz (cpu governor ondemand), 10 >> GB RAM are unused and 4.5 TB disk are not even allocated. It might be >> that I oversized it for the current purpose. >> >> I'm wondering how to use the spare CPU cycles. Compile-test of the >> kernel ("make randconfig") made sense in the past, but during the >> last few years it became fruitless. Currently I do polish my BOINC >> rank for Einstein@Home and World Community Grid. >> >> What came into my mind; what's about chroot's test scenarios and so >> on. Any ideas and/or links ? >> > > If you want to help us (libav) providing additional test instances[1] > would be quite nice =) asan and valgrind instances are hungry =) > > [1] https://www.libav.org/fate.html#Automated-Tests > Hhm, sounds as a nifty starting point.
There's a chicken-egg problem at that web page I do wonder about: How do I get the fate.sh script (via git clone ?) to fetch the git sources ? ;-) Well, will use the already fetched package here at my desktop ... -- Toralf pgp key: 0076 E94E