This mailing list is for open discussion on how to promote the project

Aaron J. Grier | 3 Mar 2007 01:07

Re: New Daily Build Cluster

(replies directed to -advocacy from netbsd-announce)

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:50:49AM -0800, Phil Nelson wrote:
> The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that we have now have a
> second "build cluster" building releases of NetBSD daily.  The
> Computer Science Department at Western Washington University in
> Bellingham Washington (USA) is using part of their cluster of i386
> machines to build daily releases for NetBSD when they are not required
> for other use.  The cluster is composed of 24 machines: the build
> master and 23 slaves.   This cluster is currently building about two
> complete releases every day.

are there any details available on how this cluster is set up?

--

-- 
  Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier <at> poofygoof.com
              "silly brewer, saaz are for pils!"  --  virt

headers

Phil Nelson | 4 Mar 2007 06:55

Re: New Daily Build Cluster

On Friday 02 March 2007 16:07, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> are there any details available on how this cluster is set up?

What kind of details?

   24 port 1000/100 switch
   master with 2 interfaces: 1 to WWU, 1 to switch
   All machines commodity machines (slaves 1u units, server 2u unit)
   slaves P4 3.2Ghz, 1G memory, 70G SATA ...
   master Xeon 3.05Ghz, 1G memory, 130G disk ...
   All running NetBSD-4 (beta)

--Phil

--

-- 
Phil Nelson
phil <at> NetBSD.org,  http://www.NetBSD.org

headers

Aaron J. Grier | 4 Mar 2007 08:04

Re: New Daily Build Cluster

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:55:41PM -0800, Phil Nelson wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 16:07, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> > are there any details available on how this cluster is set up?
> 
> What kind of details?

how the compilation is distributed across the machines in the cluster,
specifically.  one slave per architecture?  distcc?  something else?

--

-- 
  Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier <at> poofygoof.com
              "silly brewer, saaz are for pils!"  --  virt

headers

Geert Hendrickx | 4 Mar 2007 16:04

Re: New Daily Build Cluster

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:04:22PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> how the compilation is distributed across the machines in the cluster,
> specifically.  one slave per architecture?  distcc?  something else?

The same as the "old" releng build cluster: all architectures are in a
queue and are assigned to individual slaves.

	Geert