On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 01:18:23AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 03:21:36PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > > I'm still looking for 1U servers in western canada. we have an > > opportunity to build a better build infrastructure for ports but need > > the gear to do it with. > > > > I would be keenly interested in > > > > 1) Workable semi-modern amd64 capable intel hardware, 1U - 4 GB of ram > > or more is nice, One disk drive. (more is nice too). needs a working > > serial port for serial console, > > Would be very nice to get 10 or so of these for parallel dpb infrastructure > > Note that, currently, it's better to have MORE smaller machines (2/4 cpu) > than big ones. Until we get better SMP support...
I guess that various tens of RAM will be also a big help for dpb when tmpfs is ready, right? > > Our NFS support is probably going to peak around 8 boxen, for now. > > Having those boxes would really really help VFS people and SMP people get > a better idea of the contentions dpb faces... -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
