Hi Jackson, Thanks for bringing this up. You all run enough C* over there to have a good idea of what's needed. If you want to move your instances to ARM, I think that's totally fine and agree that we need the coverage anyway.
Cheers, -Nate On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 10:52 AM Fleming, Jackson via dev < dev@cassandra.apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Instaclustr is considering updating the Jenkins agents that we’ve donated > to the project ( > https://github.com/apache/cassandra-builds/blob/trunk/ASF-jenkins-agents.md) > – we’d like to update the instance types of these from the current M4 2 > X-Large sizes to M7G 2 X-Large. > > > > Primarily this would be moving from x86 instances to Graviton ARM based > ones, as we’ve seen a pretty good uptake of ARM usage, and we’d like to > help ensure that there’s good testing coverage across both x86 and ARM > architectures. > > > > Wasn’t sure where to start this conversation so this mailing list seems > like the best place, I noticed a thread today in the dev slack that > mentioned that the ARM test boxes currently in the pool have been down for > a while, so it’d be good to get that fixed as the project closes in on a > 5.0 release. > > > > Regards, > > > > *Jackson Fleming* > > > > >
