Just to followup ... On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:40:24PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Ryan and me have been communicating on a hardware mod on rem - one of > the mipsel buildds. Basically the machine is running on a PIO based ATA > disk because of the fundamentally broken design of the IDE interface > (abusing some leftover GPIO pins). I already got hold of a DMA capable > PCI controller which will be put into the machine most likely end of > this week and will bring a performance boost as it has been seen on > other BCM based buildds. > > So - the issue is known - its worked on - most likely not the speed > everyone is happy with ...
The mipsel buildd rem has a new disk and the buildd dir will be moved which will speed it up a lot (PIO vs DMA) - Another issue are frequent kernel crashes which are reproducible with building ghc6 it seems and the mips buildd suffers from the same issue 1). Upgrading to 2.6.24 was not a success (#466977). Flo 1) http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2008/02/msg00026.html -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-171-2280134 Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither - Benjamin Franklin
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