That is the Azure VM that Apache and Microsoft have made available to us.
Microsoft generously provides free Azure credits to open source committers.
Last time we had this problem, I discovered that the version of Windows we are
running has a bug/feature where some background task spends several days
running at 50% CPU. This causes our free credits to run out before the end of
month. Before I was able to find some solution to the background task, it
finished whatever it was doing, and for the past few months the background task
has done whatever it needs to do without causing problems so I stopped looking
into it. But I'm guessing that again this month, that task caused us to run
out of credits.
I don't remember exactly when the next month starts (pretty sure it isn't the
1st), and I'll receive an email when the next batch of credits are put in my
account.
As I've mentioned several times, it would be a good idea for other committers
to set up similar VMs as backups to mine. If you want, you can even provide a
credit card to charge overage credits against so your VM will never go down,
but you might end up paying significant money if some task runs at 50% CPU for
a month. I'm not generous enough to do that for Royale at this time.
It also just occurred to me that someone could set up a task on builds.a.o that
copies artifacts from this VM and have our website point there instead of
directly to the VM. That way if it does run out of credits, it won't make as
big a problem.
And, of course, some third party could provide a VM.
HTH,
-Alex
On 11/17/20, 6:28 AM, "Piotr Zarzycki" <piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com> wrote:
I don’t think this is Alex machine. We have Azure from Apache.
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 14:28, Carlos Rovira <carlosrov...@apache.org> wrote:
> Ops! :(
>
> I think this was Alex's machine? Can someone explain the need for an
> external azure server? Really don't know anything about the history of
> that. Also if there's possibility to host in Apache infra?
>
> El mar., 17 nov. 2020 a las 11:09, Harbs (<harbs.li...@gmail.com>)
> escribió:
>
> > Ugh. And I was going to work on the release today...
> >
> > > On Nov 17, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Piotr Zarzycki <
> piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > Did you notice that page [1] - is unavailable ?
> > >
> > > [1]
> >
https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapacheroyaleci2.westus2.cloudapp.azure.com%3A8080%2Fjob%2Froyale-asjs%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7Cc715f06063174d6cd25808d88b050b3f%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637412201062346288%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=u1%2FWad0OvmmIjhHSCE6ADGpp%2BX5PMhcSsS%2FWwk3UaxM%3D&reserved=0
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > --
> > >
> > > Piotr Zarzycki
> >
> >
>
> --
> Carlos Rovira
> Apache Member & Apache Royale PMC
> *Apache Software Foundation*
>
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