On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 6:16 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +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?
It's possible, but gcc111 is an old system with an older release of AIX. There's not a lot of reason to focus on it. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
