Re: armhf build machines

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> 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’.