[Arm-netbook] Fwd: Build Machine

[cnxsoft]

That type of machine would be awesome and we can always make sure we 
stay below the 200 GB/month threshold , either by reducing the 
frequencies of builds or tweaking the scrips to use less bandwidth (e.g. 
during git clone to github) and copying the binaries to Luke VM.

Jean-Luc

On 23/05/2012 22:33, lkcl luke wrote:
> kent, hi, thank you for this - i'm forwarding it on to the list, which
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> would this help, mr cnxsoft, and do you think things would go over
> 200gb / month (just doing builds, not actual hosting, so copying off
> to a separate location each time the build's completed)
>
> l.
>
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> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 21:22:06 +1000
> Subject: RE: [Arm-netbook] Documentation Proposal
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>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:19 AM, cnxsoft<cnxsoft at cnx-software.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 22/05/2012 21:32, lkcl luke wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:45 PM, cnxsoft<cnxsoft at cnx-
>> software.com>    wrote:
>>>>> 5 GB might be tight if I build the kernel there,
>>>>    yes... don't do that :)  it's a XEN hosted system, 5 VMs in total,
>>>> and the RAM for each is set to the smallest practical amount for each
>>>> purpose (except phil you set 1.5gb for one of the VMs!)
>>>>
>>>>> but we could give it a
>>>>> try. If you want to go ahead let me know the credentials off list.
>>>>    send me an ssh public key.
>>>>
>>>>> I prefer Debian or Ubuntu in the VM if possible.
>>>>    well that's lucky, cos i love debian and have a deeply cynical view
>>>> of ubuntu :)
>>>>
>>>>    l.
>>> OK, I see so it could not be used as a build machine for daily builds
>>   heck no.
> We have a small XCP cluster about to be deployed consisting of 4x
> E5645 procs and 96GB RAM across two physical machines. I'm sure that
> we could spare enough capacity for a build machine to do daily builds.
>
>>> and I guess we can forget Bugzilla, since activity has picked up in
>>> github issue trackers.
>>   eyy, brilliant.
>>
>>   ok... github's good *for now*.   but at some point, esp. if there are
>> 5 or 6 EOMA-68 CPU cards then coordination's going to be needed...
>> ehh, we'll get to that.
> We've had great success with Redmine (or perhaps now, the
> ChilliProject fork - not that I've tried it yet) for managing multiple
> projects within a single environment for bug tracking, viewing SVN
> source repositories (haven't tried it with Git), and wiki.
>
>>> So this VM could only be used to store bineries.
>>   mmmm... yeah :)  and a couple of domains related to the project (commercial).
>>
>>   l.
> Our biggest issue with hosting the VM is that any more than 200GB or
> so transferred in a month might start to be an issue.
>
> Cheers,
> -Kent