On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 05:43:04PM -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2017-03-08 11:31 AM, Simon Sapin wrote: > > On 08/03/17 15:24, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > >> What we did in the Toronto office was walked to people who ran Linux on > >> their desktop machines and installed the icecream server on their > >> computer. I suggest you do the same in London. There is no need to > >> wait for dedicated build machines. ;-) > > > > We’ve just started doing that in the Paris office. > > > > Just a few machines seem to be enough to get to the point of diminishing > > returns. Does that sound right? > > I doubt it... At one point I personally managed to saturate 80 or so > cores across a number of build slaves at the office here. (My personal > setup has been broken so unfortunately I have been building like a > turtle for a while now myself...)
Well, depends how you look at it, the marginal value of one extra machine certainly decreases because as N goes to infinity (W / N) - (W / (N + 1)) approaches zero. Certainly it doesn't make sense to have as many cores as we have unified files to compile though it would certainly be nice. That said my seat of the pants guess would be ideal is somewhat more than 3 or 4 machines. Trev > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
