On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:32:16AM +0000, peter green wrote: > On 27/02/15 00:44, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > >>Storage interfaces can also be an issue. USB is ubiquitous on arm boards > >>but the implementations can be shaky and this has made me wary > > > >Do you need a lot of on-device storage all at once? With gigabit > >ethernet, having an on-LAN mirror + NAS for storing results might work as > >long as there's enough space to build the current task? Or, I may be > >missing something. > > > You will want a few gigabytes of swap (2GB of ram may be enough to build > stuff in less than a day, it's not enough to build stuff without swapping, > IIRC I have 5GB of swap configured on the raspbian autobuilders though that > may be overkill).
webkitgtk on alpha gets up to almost 8GB memory use. > You also need space for the build chroot and the build > tree inside it which can easilly reach into the gigabytes (I looked at a > libreoffice build and it was over 5GB, it wouldn't surprise me if there is > some stuff that goes beyond 10GB though I can't name any offhand). llvm-toolchain-3.6 goes above 30GB disk space on some architectures. > In raspbian we use local HDDs with btrfs snapshots for this*, I think Debian > uses LVM snapshots HDDs on some buildds and SSDs on others but i'm not > positive on that. I suspect most of the Debian buildds are using tar file snapshots as both LVM and btrfs on wheezy did not prove reliable enough. Cheers Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150227063047.GA11404@omega
