On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 07:36 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 3/24/10 6:38 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > >> You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, > >> and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. > >> > > > > The last time this topic came up IMO there was quite some > > interest in getting this running but the showstopper was that > > cperciva@ said that a requirement for any platform supported > > by freebsd-update(8) would be that the build server is able > > to run buildworld in 1 hour at most (unfortunately I currently > > just can't find that email). My 4x1.5GHz V440 I originally > > intended for this purpose unfortunately still takes 72 minutes > > last time I checked. I suspect a 8x1.2GHz V880 would be able > > to meet this requirement but I simply can't afford the housing > > for such a beast. > > I have none that are faster than 900MHz processors, and the > one with the most processors in it is 6x750MHz. > > > Ken, did the V880s at your university become available as > > intended some time ago? > > At the moment there are two - one being used by portmgr@ > for package builds which is the 6x750MHz machine. The > other I do the monthly snapshots and release builds on, > it's 4x900MHz. This was its performance on the world > built of 7.3-RELEASE: > > >>> World build started on Sat Mar 20 23:34:54 EDT 2010 > >>> World build completed on Sun Mar 21 00:50:58 EDT 2010 >
Can we bend the rules a little ?? Who set the requirement of an hour ? freebsd-update might be a good thing to have.. Cheers Craig B _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"