Re: news from mips?

2008-02-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:55:08AM +0100, Florian Lohoff a écrit : The mipsel buildd rem has a new disk and the buildd dir will be moved which will speed it up a lot (PIO vs DMA) Dear Florian, this is good news: we can see mipsel getting better on the buildd stats:

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-13 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:08:13AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:10:20PM -0500, Philippe Cloutier a écrit : it would be much more efficient to work on buildd redundancy (or other improvements to the buildd network). By the way, is there a plan to solve the

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:40:24PM +0100, Florian Lohoff a écrit : Ryan and me have been communicating on a hardware mod on rem - one of the mipsel buildds. Basically the machine is running on a PIO based ATA disk because of the fundamentally broken design of the IDE interface (abusing some

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:36:21PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr a écrit : * Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-11 19:26]: I am really thankful for Tim and Martin to work on a MIPS machine, but currently we do not even know if there is a plan to make it a buildd, No, it will be a porter

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-11 19:26]: I am really thankful for Tim and Martin to work on a MIPS machine, but currently we do not even know if there is a plan to make it a buildd, No, it will be a porter machine. nor if the problem is really a problem of load or just an

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-11 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:08:13AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Sorry to be rude, but I am just so surprised that there is a such big problem and that apparently nothing is done. If people are working on the issue, just let us know, they will get many kudos and everybody will be happy. In the

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:28:48AM +0200, Riku Voipio a écrit : On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:08:13AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Sorry to be rude, but I am just so surprised that there is a such big problem and that apparently nothing is done. If people are working on the issue, just let us

news from mips?

2008-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:10:20PM -0500, Philippe Cloutier a écrit : it would be much more efficient to work on buildd redundancy (or other improvements to the buildd network). By the way, is there a plan to solve the problem of mips not keeping up apart waiting for a miracle to happen?

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry to be rude, but I am just so surprised that there is a such big problem and that apparently nothing is done. If people are working on the issue, just let us know, they will get many kudos and everybody will be happy. In the absence of any