Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:36:46AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:14:24AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> > The impression I got from looking at the build farm thank-yous on the >> > website >> > was that we have lowered requirements for what we're looking for in armhf >> > build machines, at least in terms of RAM. In terms of freedom the Raspberry >> > Pi 2 isn't great, but in terms of cost its pretty inexpensive. Is this >> > something we'd be interested in? >> >> We are waiting for two new Novena boards that should arrive before the >> end of the year. The current bottleneck is not the build machines, but hydra; >> already now the build farm could sustain more jobs in parallel, but we >> artificially limit them. So I would say that there is currently no need >> to add more build machines. This may change if we get a physical machine >> for hydra. > > What sort of machine would be appropriate for hydra?
Something rather big: say 8+ cores, 16+G RAM, fast disk of 3T at least. Ludo’.