----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Kuba" <[email protected]>
> To: "Timothy Pearson" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Andres Salomon" <[email protected]>, "1111208"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2025 3:34:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Bug#1111208: closed by Andres Salomon <[email protected]> (Re:
> Bug#1111208: Trixie Chromium Arm64 build
> failure)
> Just to give me an idea of what you are currently working with, are all
> these ones in BC separate beefy ampere servers or chunks of one?
> https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
>
> Like if we donated something like this (I can nab some ecc ddr4 as well to
> max it to 256GB) Would it even make a dent in build throughput?
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/236143691826
I'm not part of the infrastructure team, but I do know upgrading those to 256GB
at least puts arm64 back in the (lower) ballpark as compared to the ppc64el
machines. That would be an improvement in theory over the current situation,
*provided* the ARM ISA used by those machines is the same one that Debian is
targeting -- there's a lot of fragmentation and incompatibility in the ARM
space still, so I'd recommend verifying that with a build test before buying
one.
