[Arm-netbook] Netgear ReadyNAS

[Gordan Bobic]

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. My build path is on NFS and swap on 
iSCSI, both going to the same server (big fat x86 box with 16GB of RAM 
with ZFS).

Sure, some packages take ages to build (kernel takes a day or two on a 
SheevaPlug, OpenOffice takes a week or so (haven't managed to get it to 
build completely yet)). But the CPU speed is a bigger problem than RAM.

Gordan