I think a cluster of RPi 2s would be worthwhile here--RPi 2 is now 1.5x - 6x (depending on task) faster than the original RPi, and looks to be one of the more powerful embedded environments now. I read someone do a benchmark with it, and they indicated that by using all 4 cores, it had the equivalent performance of roughly a high end Pentium III or low end Pentium IV. The benchmark was by no means comprehensive, but by comparison on the same benchmark, the RPi B+ was roughly a Pentium II.
A cluster of those babies would make for a formidable build farm. On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: > Back in the day I considered running some QEMU emulated ARM VMs, > but the perforance on a high end x86 box was sufficiently poor > that a bunch of NFS-root Sheeva/Dream Plugs was considerably > more performance at a fraction of a power budget. > > Don't get me wrong, it has it's uses, especially when you > don't have better alternatives, just prepare for the > performance to be quite poor. > > Gordan > > > On 2015-04-09 00:02, Al Hopper wrote: > >> Very kool! >> >> What are the specs on your ESXi host and: >> - how many build VMs are you running? >> - what kind of build times do you see? >> - perhaps you could share the build times for a couple of >> representative packages? >> >> If this system were publicly accessible (by invitation), we'd have a >> redsleeve build farm! >> >> Great idea... >> >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Bjarne <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Gordan. >>> >>> I am giving a little peep :) >>> I am currently setting up my own little build system on my VMware >>> ESXi host, using slaves with qemu running the Redsleeve image. >>> Lets see how it ends up :) >>> >>> BR >>> Bjarne >>> >>> On 08-04-2015 20:59, Gordan Bobic wrote: >>> >>> RS EPEL is unmaintained. It was originally conributed by a >>>> community member who afterwards didn't have time to maintain >>>> it due to other commitments. >>>> >>>> If anybody would like to step up as a maintainer for EPEL6 >>>> (and EPEL7, for that matter), please, do speak up. >>>> >>>> Gordan >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users [1] >>> >> >> -- >> >> Al Hopper >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- --Mark
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