Re: Question about build box hardware
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 07:44:12PM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> >2GB seems to be enough to build nearly all packages in less than a day.
>
> Good to know.
>
> >More than 2GB was prohibitively expensive when I last checked.
>
> I have mostly found the same to be true. There is <http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Firefly-RK3288-Quad-Core-Cortex-A17-Development-Board-Plus-4GB-DDR3-32GB-eMMC-Adapter/1710008_32248656289.html>
> which looks promising.
That looks really nice. 32GB eMMC and 4GB ram and 4 A17s? I might have
to get one.
> Do you need a lot of on-device storage all at once? With gigabit
> ethernet, having an on-LAN mirror + NAS for storing results might
> work as long as there's enough space to build the current task? Or,
> I may be missing something.
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Len Sorensen
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