Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-12 Thread Khem Raj
On Sep 3, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote: > > >> On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Christian Gagneraud wrote: >> >>> On 04/09/13 07:22, Chris Tapp wrote: >>> On 3 Sep 2013, at 00:29, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > On 03/09/13 10:16, Chris Tapp wrote: >> On 2 Sep 2013, at 22

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-03 Thread Elvis Dowson
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > >> On 04/09/13 07:22, Chris Tapp wrote: >> >>> On 3 Sep 2013, at 00:29, Christian Gagneraud wrote: >>> On 03/09/13 10:16, Chris Tapp wrote: > On 2 Sep 2013, at 22:45, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > > > On 03/09/13

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-03 Thread Christian Gagneraud
On 03/09/13 20:55, Elvis Dowson wrote: I use a 3770K i7 quad-core processor, 16GB RAM, with a liquid cooled solution running at 3.8GHz. I've overclocked the CPU to 4.5GHz, but I end up shaving only 2 minutes off build times, so I just run it at 3.8GHz. A core-image-minimal build takes around

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-03 Thread Christian Gagneraud
On 04/09/13 07:22, Chris Tapp wrote: On 3 Sep 2013, at 00:29, Christian Gagneraud wrote: On 03/09/13 10:16, Chris Tapp wrote: On 2 Sep 2013, at 22:45, Christian Gagneraud wrote: On 03/09/13 00:35, Burton, Ross wrote: Hi Ross, On 2 September 2013 06:05, Christian Gagneraud wrote: So ri

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-03 Thread Chris Tapp
On 3 Sep 2013, at 02:04, Elvis Dowson wrote: > Hi, > > On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:29 AM, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > >>> Isn't RAID-5 going to be slower, especially if it's software? RAID 1 >>> is probably better as you'll potentially double the write speed to disk. >>> I use a couple of Vertex SSD

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-03 Thread Chris Tapp
On 3 Sep 2013, at 12:57, lot...@denx.de wrote: > Am 2013-09-03 00:16, schrieb Chris Tapp: >> On 2 Sep 2013, at 22:45, Christian Gagneraud wrote: >>> On 03/09/13 00:35, Burton, Ross wrote: >>> Hi Ross, On 2 September 2013 06:05, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > So right now, I'm thinking abo

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-03 Thread Chris Tapp
On 3 Sep 2013, at 00:29, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > On 03/09/13 10:16, Chris Tapp wrote: >> On 2 Sep 2013, at 22:45, Christian Gagneraud wrote: >> >>> >>> On 03/09/13 00:35, Burton, Ross wrote: >>> >>> Hi Ross, >>> On 2 September 2013 06:05, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > So right n

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-03 Thread lothar
Am 2013-09-03 00:16, schrieb Chris Tapp: On 2 Sep 2013, at 22:45, Christian Gagneraud wrote: On 03/09/13 00:35, Burton, Ross wrote: Hi Ross, On 2 September 2013 06:05, Christian Gagneraud wrote: So right now, I'm thinking about: - CPU: Xeon E5, maybe 2 x E5-2670/90, for a total of 16 core

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-03 Thread Elvis Dowson
>> >> I use a 3770K i7 quad-core processor, 16GB RAM, with a liquid cooled >> solution running at 3.8GHz. I've overclocked the CPU to 4.5GHz, but I >> end up shaving only 2 minutes off build times, so I just run it at 3.8GHz. >> >> A core-image-minimal build takes around 22 minutes for me, for a

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-02 Thread Christian Gagneraud
On 03/09/13 13:04, Elvis Dowson wrote: Hi, On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:29 AM, Christian Gagneraud mailto:chg...@gna.org>> wrote: Isn't RAID-5 going to be slower, especially if it's software? RAID 1 is probably better as you'll potentially double the write speed to disk. I use a couple of Vertex SSDs

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-02 Thread Elvis Dowson
Hi, On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:29 AM, Christian Gagneraud wrote: >> Isn't RAID-5 going to be slower, especially if it's software? RAID 1 >> is probably better as you'll potentially double the write speed to disk. >> I use a couple of Vertex SSDs in RAID 1 giving a theoretical write speed >> near to 1G

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-02 Thread Christian Gagneraud
On 03/09/13 10:16, Chris Tapp wrote: On 2 Sep 2013, at 22:45, Christian Gagneraud wrote: On 03/09/13 00:35, Burton, Ross wrote: Hi Ross, On 2 September 2013 06:05, Christian Gagneraud wrote: So right now, I'm thinking about: - CPU: Xeon E5, maybe 2 x E5-2670/90, for a total of 16 cores (3

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-02 Thread Chris Tapp
On 2 Sep 2013, at 22:45, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > > On 03/09/13 00:35, Burton, Ross wrote: > > Hi Ross, > >> On 2 September 2013 06:05, Christian Gagneraud wrote: >>> So right now, I'm thinking about: >>> - CPU: Xeon E5, maybe 2 x E5-2670/90, for a total of 16 cores (32 threads) >>> - Hard

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-02 Thread Christian Gagneraud
On 03/09/13 00:35, Burton, Ross wrote: Hi Ross, On 2 September 2013 06:05, Christian Gagneraud wrote: So right now, I'm thinking about: - CPU: Xeon E5, maybe 2 x E5-2670/90, for a total of 16 cores (32 threads) - Hard drives: 500GB, 1 TB or 2 TB (ideally with RAID if it can speed up the buil

Re: [yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-02 Thread Burton, Ross
On 2 September 2013 06:05, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > So right now, I'm thinking about: > - CPU: Xeon E5, maybe 2 x E5-2670/90, for a total of 16 cores (32 threads) > - Hard drives: 500GB, 1 TB or 2 TB (ideally with RAID if it can speed up the > builds) > - RAM: i don't really know, maybe 8 or 1

[yocto] Server specs for a continuous integration system

2013-09-01 Thread Christian Gagneraud
Hi all, I'm currently looking at server specs for a "good" continuous integration server to be used for a project using Yocto and other things as well. The definition of "good" in my context is something that allows me to: - Build 2 images for 2 different products that will interact with each