Re: replacement builder needed

On Oct 24, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Sunday, 23 October 2011 at 20:02, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Since no one has stepped up yet I have a proposal but I don't know how >> easy it will be to accomplish. >> >> I'm willing to offer up my desktop machine with the following requirements: >> >> 1. At least 5 to 10 others in total do the same >> 2. Building packages would be assigned to all machines in a round >> robin approach. >> 3. I can shut down the builds by window or manually. I do occasionally >> use my machine for gaming. >> >> Another option in addition to the above would be to allow uploading of >> packages from contributors machines to buildsys. I would suggest >> making it possible from cvs/make where the packages would get built on >> the local machine and then be uploaded. > > I can set up a builder on my home server, if necessary. However my uplink > is only 512kbps at the moment and the server is a 64bit dual-core Atom, > so not exactly a speed demon. :) I tried running a similar atom box as a builder at one point. It was horrendous, the thing kept choking on builds, took ages to complete anything, often got itself completely hung due to excessive swapping, would oom-kill, etc. But if you had tons of RAM in it (read: more than 4GB), it *might* be okay. I'd be more inclined to roll with what Adrian is cooking up. :)