Hi everyone, We are working on designing a build cluster for the OpenOffice BuildBot. Our goal is to have a farm of machines that community contributors can use to quickly do (distributed) builds of OpenOffice.
I've heard that Sun Release Engineering has a build cluster in use. We would love to know more about the cluster to help us design the BuildBot one. So here is a bunch of questions: - How many machines are there in the cluster? - What hardware/OS are they running? - How does the network infrastucture work? What is the design and capacity? - How is the shared disk space handled? What type of server/software are you using? - How do you monitor the cluster? What loads (disk, CPU, network) are you measuring? How do you measure them? - What is the bottleneck? Is the cluster CPU, disk, RAM or network bound? - How does the task distribution software work? - How does the cluster handle nodes dying during a build? - How many nodes can the build be paralellized on? 50? 100? - What is the utilization of the cluster? Ie. How much paralellism are you able to extract from the build? 75% 80%? How does the paralellism scale, what is the optimum number of machines for a build. Is there anything I'm not asking about that I should? Thanks for the answers and helping out with this! Take care, Kai -- Kai Backman, Software Engineer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
