[Arm-netbook] Netgear ReadyNAS

[lkcl luke]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> On 07/23/2012 10:28 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Gordan Bobic<gordan at bobich.net>  wrote:
>>> The "WTF" was in reference to it being cheaper than a SheevaPlug.
>>
>>   mass-produced.
>
> And SheevaPlug isn't??
>
>> does anyone actually have one of these?  the debian
>> arm team is having serious problems with builds for certain types of
>> packages because the linker stage, what with debug symbols being
>> switched on, takes 18+ hours to complete.  they really need a system
>> with 2gb of RAM.
>
> I built RSEL6 on SheevaPlugs with 512MB of RAM. If you have reasonably
> decent swap it's not a problem.

  for c++ packages with debug builds, the linker phase for e.g.
webkitgtk requires 1.5gb of RAM.  the sheer overwhelming number of
references across that much RAM means that if even one single small
part of that is not completely resident then the linker phase will,
instead of taking 15 minutes, take 18 hours.

 debian has 30,000 packages and increasing.  you simply cannot have an
entire build machine tied up for two days or a week on one single
package: it becomes impossible to keep up.

 also, many of these "embedded" boards simply aren't designed to cope
with sustained 100% CPU usage and sustained maximum data transfer.

 bottom line: they *need* capable systems, with at least 2gb of RAM,
but nobody is actually making any (they've all "promised" them).  so
if anyone knows of actual available systems that can do 2gb of RAM
that would be very very helpful.

l.