Hi Yuri. While I do not have powers to make a decision, I think it's very reasonable if pypy pays for such parts. If you can provide cost estimates, I'll try to go through the appropriate channels to have this approved, if you're interested.
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Yury V. Zaytsev <y...@shurup.com> wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2017, Matti Picus wrote: > >> It seems own tests are taking a very long time on this machine. I have >> explored using jom.exe (https://github.com/qt-labs/jom) instead of nmake to >> allow parallel compilation, which reduces my run of rpython's >> translator\c\test\test_typed.py from ~700 secs to ~600 secs, where on the >> same machine it is under 200 secs with linux. Note that the buildbot >> requires over 2800 secs for the same test (see >> http://buildbot.pypy.org/builders/own-win-x86-32/builds/1395/steps/shell_6/logs/stdio) > > > It is simply so that the machine kindly provided by the folks at Dartmouth > College where I migrated the Windows VM to is way slower than my old box, > and has only 2 physical cores in total... > > Also take a note, that the same machine also does build & test runs for > git-annex, which take about an hour each, so that also doesn't speedup PyPy > builds. > > Anyways, in the mean time, it looks like I've found colo in Germany for my > old machine, but I still need to: > > * Get it shipped to the new datacenter > * Partly replace old hardware > * Install it & set it up anew > > No ETAs, but something is moving in some direction at least. Getting > hardware is for now an unsolved problem though. I need 2 x 2/3 TB SATA > enterprise HDDs and 2 x enterprise SSDs + would be good to replace > unreliable DDR3 RAM sticks... Stuff that I have is 5 years old, and HDDs > tend to fail when they are old :-/ > > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Yury V. Zaytsev > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > pypy-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
