On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:17:45AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 23:17, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Looking at my testing PPC box with grep-available, we have only about > > > 8GB total Installed-Size. > > > > glibc packages total installed size is only a few dozen megs. However, > > the source builds takes up about 600megs. XFree86, about 1.6gigs. > > glibc's build requirements sound like about 20-30 times installed size, > then. Assuming this holds, and trusting the 8GB figure, gives > 160--240GB. > > That's all of three 100GB IDE disks running in RAID 0. Four disks if for > some reason you want redundancy on your cache.
Surely you don't presume that a) All of our autobuilders have enough bays for 3 IDE disks and b) Can take IDE at all (vore, the sparc buildd, doesn't have any IDE). Ben -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]