I'm curious, has anyone done any research or benchmarks on running tests 
with higher frequency CPUs vs more CPU cores? Assuming tests are able to 
utilise all the cores (via parallel_tests perhaps).

On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 10:56:32 UTC+11, William Madden wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I need a CI server. I've been thinking about this for a little while and 
> I'm leaning towards hosting my own CI server rather than using somebody 
> else's service - primarily because I don't want to pay someone else for 
> something I can maintain and because they tend to be slow. With regard to 
> maintaining my own CI server, here are the conclusions I've come to:
>
>    1. Headless servers are extremely frustrating to debug 
>       - I want to be able to plug in a screen to set everything up, and 
>       to debug it when it (inevitably) breaks
>       2. Remote servers tend to be slow
>       - E.g. Amazon EC2
>       - Also they cost money I don't have
>    3. Maintaining my own hardware is fine, but I'm going to be travelling 
>    between countries a lot in the next few months and I need to be able to 
>    take it with me
>       - So smaller is better
>       
> My app is pretty straightforward, a Rails server and HTML/JS frontend 
> tested with RSpec, Jasmine and Cucumber. Running the full suite of tests 
> takes about 2 minutes on my MBP.
>
> I've been thinking about getting a mini-pc/nettop/<stupid sales term for 
> "small computer">. Anybody have any recommendations - either for small 
> portable hardware or for a hosted service that will perform adequately and 
> not cost too much?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will
>

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