Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-04 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/4/25 21:14, Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users wrote: On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 10:25:11PM +, mirabilos via cfarm-users wrote: In general I’d ask people who run longer-term jobs to nice(1) them, and people who do builds that aren’t over in a handful of minutes to limit parallelisation, so

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-04 Thread Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users
On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 10:25:11PM +, mirabilos via cfarm-users wrote: > In general I’d ask people who run longer-term jobs to nice(1) > them, and people who do builds that aren’t over in a handful > of minutes to limit parallelisation, so that those of us who > do quick-shot interactive testin

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-04 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/4/25 16:52, Luke Dashjr via cfarm-users wrote: [...] Bitcoin itself is an important tool for freedom. We are in an era where governments regularly abuse their power over currencies, and even private banks and money transmitters regularly abuse their position for financial censorship. It

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-04 Thread Bruno Haible via cfarm-users
Luke Dashjr wrote: > If you need a source for some reason, feel free to quote me. You won't > find anyone else more* qualified in the Bitcoin area. Without this hint, I would not have guessed it: Luke Dashjr apparently is "the co-founder of Ocean mining pool" [1]. Which means that he has persona

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-04 Thread Luke Dashjr via cfarm-users
On 1/3/25 11:16 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: Luke Dashjr wrote: Bitcoin is in fact good for the environment, despite whatever FUD you dig up on Wikipedia You cannot make points in a discussion, by repeating wrong claims that already have been shown to be misinformation. Wikipedia lists sources. You

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-04 Thread mirabilos via cfarm-users
Luke Dashjr via cfarm-users dixit: > Bitcoin is in fact good for the environment, despite whatever FUD you dig up > on > Wikipedia (which is where credibility is truly lacking). It enables green > energy production where it otherwise couldn't be done or would normally > require > mixing with fos

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-04 Thread Peter Gutmann via cfarm-users
Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users writes: >Which is why I am looking for solutions that also give us conventions for >"politely" running other jobs like CI or fuzzing, Fuzzing is essentially identical to mining in terms of what it does to a host, even if it's for good (non-klepto) purposes. I thi

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-03 Thread Bruno Haible via cfarm-users
Luke Dashjr wrote: > Bitcoin is in fact good for the environment, despite whatever FUD you > dig up on Wikipedia You cannot make points in a discussion, by repeating wrong claims that already have been shown to be misinformation. Wikipedia lists sources. You don't. > TEPCO is working on a circul

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-03 Thread Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users
On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 08:46:27PM -0500, Luke Dashjr via cfarm-users wrote: > Bitcoin is in fact good for the environment, despite whatever FUD you > dig up on Wikipedia (which is where credibility is truly lacking). No, bitcoin is terrible for the environment. Pretending that is not true is at

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-03 Thread Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users
On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 07:19:24PM -0600, Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users wrote: > Which is why I am looking for solutions that also give us conventions > for "politely" running other jobs like CI or fuzzing, so we get > /something/ even if the end result is that the cfarm proves > uninteresting

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-03 Thread Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users
On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 12:20:52PM +, Jonathan Wakely via cfarm-users wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, 01:40 Jacob Bachmeyer, wrote: > [...], and discriminating against some cryptocurrency project > is fine because being a crypto-bro is not a legally protected > characteristic. Them's fighting wo

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-03 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/3/25 03:23, tkoenig--- via cfarm-users wrote: Am 03.01.25 um 02:40 schrieb Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users: > I have a philosophical view that idle time on servers is essentially > wasted: a sunk cost. In the age of TTL, ECL or even NMOS, that might have been true, power usage was pretty

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-03 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/3/25 06:20, Jonathan Wakely wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, 01:40 Jacob Bachmeyer, wrote: On 1/2/25 03:43, Jonathan Wakely wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, 02:55 Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users, wrote: On 1/1/25 19:23, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 2025-01-01 16:32, Jacob Bac

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-03 Thread Jonathan Wakely via cfarm-users
On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, 01:40 Jacob Bachmeyer, wrote: > On 1/2/25 03:43, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, 02:55 Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users, < > cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: > >> On 1/1/25 19:23, Paul Eggert wrote: >> > On 2025-01-01 16:32, Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-use

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-03 Thread tkoenig--- via cfarm-users
Am 03.01.25 um 02:40 schrieb Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users: > I have a philosophical view that idle time on servers is essentially > wasted: a sunk cost. In the age of TTL, ECL or even NMOS, that might have been true, power usage was pretty much independent of the computational load in those

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-02 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/2/25 03:43, Jonathan Wakely wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, 02:55 Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users, wrote: On 1/1/25 19:23, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 2025-01-01 16:32, Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users wrote: >> Perhaps a combination of nice(1) and ulimit(1) would be suitable? >

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-02 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/2/25 06:22, Jing Luo via cfarm-users wrote: On 2025-01-02 16:12, Paul Eggert via cfarm-users wrote: It's better to steer clear of this tarpit. I also lean towards a total ban for reasons stated by multiple people. But before cfarm-admins has a consensus/conclusion, as the maintainer of

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-02 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/2/25 05:39, Martin Guy via cfarm-users wrote: > It's better to steer clear of this tarpit. +1 Its unenforcable unless we set up a full-time Stasi or individual cfarm users decide to play vigilante; just handle individual cases as and when they occur, as has happened so gently and resp

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-02 Thread Jing Luo via cfarm-users
On 2025-01-02 16:12, Paul Eggert via cfarm-users wrote: It's better to steer clear of this tarpit. I also lean towards a total ban for reasons stated by multiple people. But before cfarm-admins has a consensus/conclusion, as the maintainer of cfarm420~430, I would like to unilaterally enforce

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-02 Thread Martin Guy via cfarm-users
> It's better to steer clear of this tarpit. +1 Its unenforcable unless we set up a full-time Stasi or individual cfarm users decide to play vigilante; just handle individual cases as and when they occur, as has happened so gently and respectfully this time. After all, Munin will say when

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-02 Thread Jonathan Wakely via cfarm-users
On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, 02:55 Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users, < cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: > On 1/1/25 19:23, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 2025-01-01 16:32, Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users wrote: > >> Perhaps a combination of nice(1) and ulimit(1) would be suitable? > > > > Not for mining

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-01 Thread Paul Eggert via cfarm-users
On 2025-01-01 18:54, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: I am suggesting allowing /testing/ "miner" software, not /using/ it. That's not a rule that we can enforce. There are countermeasures to any practical enforcement mechanism, including the mechanisms you suggested. It's better to steer clear of this

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-01 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/1/25 19:23, Paul Eggert wrote: On 2025-01-01 16:32, Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users wrote: Perhaps a combination of nice(1) and ulimit(1) would be suitable? Not for mining, no. It would still consume resources that are better used for cfarm's intended purposes. The intention is to limi

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-01 Thread Paul Eggert via cfarm-users
On 2025-01-01 16:32, Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users wrote: Perhaps a combination of nice(1) and ulimit(1) would be suitable? Not for mining, no. It would still consume resources that are better used for cfarm's intended purposes. I would suggest ... making very clear that "mining" for pr

Re: [cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

2025-01-01 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users
On 1/1/25 17:25, Gregor Riepl via cfarm-users wrote: We want nothing at all to do with any of it (well, I don't, at least), even if not all of it is directly against the rules, does not violate acceptable use directly: it is just distasteful. The cfarm is supposed to be used for developing (whic