+CC cfarm-admins@ On Sun, Nov 25 2018, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 5:53 PM Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users > <cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 11:28:58PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason via >> cfarm-users wrote: >> > I got access to the farm a while ago to test free software projects I >> > work on, mainly git.git. I wanted to send a headsup about what I've been >> > up to. >> > >> > I'm setting up something where the integration branches of git.git are >> > smoke tested on various machines on the farm. See the Git ML >> > announcement at >> > https://public-inbox.org/git/875zwm15k2....@evledraar.gmail.com/ >> > >> > Currently I'm running things on these machines: >> > https://gitlab.com/git-vcs/git-gitlab-ci/blob/b8d4645891aa/.gitlab-ci.yml#L16-57 >> > >> > I've tried to be conservative about resources. It's all nice -n 19'd, >> > and with a conservative -j value relative to the number of cores: >> > https://gitlab.com/git-vcs/git-gitlab-ci/blob/b8d4645891aa/ci/gitlab/run-on-gcc-farm.sh#L62-163 >> >> At least for the Power machines, that isn't conservative at all. >> -j1 is conservative. -j24 is not conservative on a machine with 20 CPUs >> (gcc112), or 32 CPUs (gcc135). The AIX (gcc119) jobs seem to run for over >> an hour on half the machine? That's no good :-( > > The AIX systems unfortunately are I/O bound. > > One can run set up a temporary directory in the /scratch RAMDISK for > some improvement. Thanks. The /scratch directory exists on gcc119 and speeds things up by a *lot*, but doesn't exist on the other AIX machine, gcc111. Would it be possible to have /scratch be a ramdisk there too? >> >> There are two important considerations for automated jobs. Are things set >> up so that your task cannot monopolise a system; and, are things set up so >> that your automated tasks do not hinder interactive work. >> >> Could you please work on making those two things true? >> >> >> Segher >> _______________________________________________ >> cfarm-users mailing list >> cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net >> https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users > _______________________________________________ > cfarm-users mailing list > cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net > https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
