[Arm-dev] Getting started / Build machines

[Gordan Bobic]

Same here - real life and this thing called "day job" has a
knack for getting in the way of doing cool and interesting
stuff like this done.

On 2014-07-30 08:58, D.S. Ljungmark wrote:
> Not much has happened on my end. Lock setup and running, but as I said
> earlier, lacking time.
> On 30 Jul 2014 03:41, "Robert Moskowitz" <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> 
>> Other than my posts, this list has been quite since Jul 3rd.  Is
>> there
>> any activity on putting together builds as were mentioned that day?
>> 
>> On 07/03/2014 09:33 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>> 4GB of RAM is the biggest limitation. What I tend to do is attach
>> a
>>> decent, large SSD (LibreOffice needs nearly 40GB to build!!!) to
>> each
>>> builder, set up tons of swap (say, 8GB per core), and run as many
>>> build threads as there are cores in the machine. That tends to
>> yield
>>> optimal hardware saturation even if some packages insist on
>> building
>>> single-threaded.
>> 
>> I moved all of the July posts into Thunderbird so I could read them
>> better.  And it seems that it might be beyond my minimal ablities.
>> 
>> My Cubieboard 2 is an Allwinner A20 duo core with 1GB memory.  I
>> have a
>> 16GB SD for the OS for now.  It does have a real SATA2 interface
>> to put
>> a notebook sata drive on.  I have a few 320GB drives I can use.
>> 
>> The F19 build uses the Sunxi 3.4 kernel.
>> 
>> I will attempt to do a 'yum update --exclude=kern*' and I do have a
>> few
>> things to install (eg tigervnc-server).
>> 
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