Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 7:29 PM Sam Hartman wrote: > Your entire argument is built on the premise that it is actually > desirable for these applications (compilers, linkers, etc) to work in > 32-bit address spaces. that's right [and in another message in the thread it was mentioned that builds h

Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-14 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 5:13 PM Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > a proper fix would also have the advantage of keeping linkers for > > *other* platforms (even 64 bit ones) out of swap-thrashing, saving > > power consumption for build hardware and costing a lot less on SSD and > > HDD regular replacement

Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-09 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 9:39 PM Aurelien Jarno wrote: > We are at a point were we should probably look for a real solution > instead of relying on tricks. *sigh* i _have_ been pointing out for several years now that thi

Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-09 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:49 PM Ivo De Decker wrote: > > Hi Aurelien, > > On 8/8/19 10:38 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > 32-bit processes are able to address at maximum 4GB of memory (2^32), > > and often less (2 or 3GB)

Re: armel *and* armhf qualification for Wheezy

2019-01-09 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thursday, May 17, 2012, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:18:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > >> >Would it be worth trying to link with gold for these? > >> > >> It might be, yes. I can try that with iceweasel on an imx53 or Panda > >> with 1GB if you like. Are there any non

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:26 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:01 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > trying this: > > $ python evil_linker_torture.py 3000 400 200 50 > > running with "make -j4" is going to take a few

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:01 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > i'm going to see if i can get above the 4GB mark by modifying the > Makefile to do 3,000 shared libraries instead of 3,000 static object > files. fail. shared libraries link extremely quickly. reverted to

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
$ python evil_linker_torture.py 3000 100 100 50 ok so that managed to get up to 1.8GB resident memory, paused for a bit, then doubled it to 3.6GB, and a few seconds later successfully outputted a binary. i'm going to see if i can get above the 4GB mark by modifying the Makefile to do 3,000 sh

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 6:27 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > i'm just running the above, will hit "send" now in case i can't hit > ctrl-c in time on the linker phase... goodbye world... :) $ python evil_linker_torture.py 2000 50 100 200 $ make -j8 oh,

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
$ python evil_linker_torture.py 2000 50 100 200 ok so it's pretty basic, and arguments of "2000 50 10 100" resulted in around a 10-15 second linker phase, which top showed to be getting up to around the 2-3GB resident memory range. "2000 50 100 200" should start to make even a system

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:46:41PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > > > At some point apps are going to become so insanely large that not even > > disabling debug info will help. > > That's less

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Mike Hommey wrote: > . > > Note that Firefox is built with --no-keep-memory > --reduce-memory-overheads, and that was still not enough for 32-bts > builds. GNU gold instead of BFD ld was also given a shot. That didn't > work either. Presently, to make things link at a

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:46 PM Steve McIntyre wrote: > > [ Please note the cross-post and respect the Reply-To... ] > > Hi folks, > > This has taken a while in coming, for which I apologise. There's a lot > of work involved in rebuilding the whole Debian archive, and many many > hours spent analy

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
spoke again to TL and asked if pine64 would be willing to look at sponsorship witn rockpro64 boards (the ones that take 4x PCIe): if someone from debian were to contact him direct he would happily consider it. i then asked him if i could cc him into this discussion and he said he was way *way* too

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:13 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > >>> also worth noting, they're working on a 2U rackmount server which >>> will have i think something insane like 48 Rock64Pro board

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:31 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > >> that is not a surprise to hear: the massive thrashing caused by the >> linker phase not being possible

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> also worth noting, they're working on a 2U rackmount server which >> will have i think something insane like 48 Rock64Pro boards in one >> full-length case. > None of this addresses the basic DSA requirement of remote management. > T

Re: Arm ports build machines (was Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns)

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>2G is also way too little memory these days for a new buildd. > > Nod - lots of packages are just too big for that now. apologies for repeating it again: this is why i'm recommending people try "-Wl,--no-keep-memory" on the linker phase a

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Roger Shimizu, le ven. 29 juin 2018 23:04:26 +0900, a ecrit: >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:04 PM, Uwe Kleine-König >> wrote: >> > On 06/29/2018 11:23 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: >> >> 2G is also way too little memory these days for a new bu

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > Everyone, please avoid followups to debian-po...@lists.debian.org. > Unless something is relevant to *all* architectures (hint: discussion of > riscv or arm issues don't qualify), keep replies to the appropriate > port-specific mailing lis

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:06 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 06/29/2018 10:41 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Uwe Kleine-König >> wrote: >> >>>> In short, the hardware (development boards) we're current

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> i don't know: i'm an outsider who doesn't have the information in >> short-term memory, which is why i cc'd the debian-riscv team as they >> have current facts and knowledge foremost in their minds. which is >> why i included them. > >

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> what is the reason why that package is not moving forward? > > I assume you're referring to the dpkg upload that's in proposed-updates > waiting for the point

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > armel/armhf: > > > * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM >support uncertain. (DSA) >- Source: [DSA Sprint report] [other affected 32-bit architectures removed but still relevant] ... i'm

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:03:00PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: >> armel/armhf: >> >> >> * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM >>support uncertain. (DSA) >>- Source: [DSA Sprint

getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:52 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The 3.8.y branch is over, so I think we have to move to 3.9, ready or > not. I merged the work in progress from trunk to sid and am going > through the config changes at the moment. > > I'm rather disappointed that nothing at all has been c

Bug#615513: release.debian.org: armhf inclusion into the archive

2012-01-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:24 AM, peter green wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Adam D. Barratt >> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> (fwiw, the not-yet-built list includes webkit and ruby1.9.1, each of &g

Bug#615513: release.debian.org: armhf inclusion into the archive

2012-01-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >  anything outside of that - even by a marginal amount - will result in > the build machine absolutely thrashing its nuts off. [for anything in excess of 24 hours]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-releas

Bug#615513: release.debian.org: armhf inclusion into the archive

2012-01-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > (fwiw, the not-yet-built list includes webkit and ruby1.9.1, each of > which have a number of other packages directly or indirectly stuck > behind them). ahh... webkit. do you have a system anywhere that has 2gb of RAM? if not, i strong

Re: Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:52:54PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:45:48AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:51:22PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > > > for this P120 (whatever) i have *shudder* had to use a >

Re: Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:06:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Incidentally, I have no idea why this bug was filed against > kernel-image-2.6-686; ... because i believed it to be a... wossisname... dummy package (2.6.N ... 2.6.NN) oops. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:51:22PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > It would probably be a good idea to record what ought to work in any given > release and maybe have an ongoing idea what it should be. The answer might be > architecture specific? ISTR either the d-i team or apt/dpkg/aptitude tryin

Re: Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 deb ian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:17:10PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > debian-release cc'd due to minimum system requirement stuff mentioned in a > previous message... > > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes... > > > my bug report invites you to consider the impact that s