Re: Computing resources for DHG work
Hi,
minor correction. Our packaging does not use parallelism of the.compiler, but the rebuild-all-tool (dht make-all) can run multiple builds in parallel, using -j n.
Greetings,Joachim
Am 29. Mai 2016 14:43:54 MESZ, schrieb Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>:
>Hello,
>
>I received an offer of some computing power off-list. Thank you for
>your reply, regardless. For posterity I'll answer your questions:
>
>On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 02:14:40PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
>> Is this a single-core endeavour, or would would you benefit from
>> multiple cores?
>
>GHC can build in parallel, so yes, it would be beneficial.
>
>> What are the disk space and memory requirements?
>
>The disc space required would be the total of:
>
>- all the source packages & orig tarballs that have the haskell group
> specified as the Maintainer:
>- plus all the binary packages built from those
>- plus a base sid debootstrap chroot (around 1.6GB)
>
>I don't know how to find out the total size of those source and binary
>packages in advance of downloading all the tarballs and building them
>all (the DHG repo contains only the debian/ subdir); I would be
>grateful
>if someone pointed me at a way of extracting that information from the
>archive.
>
>I seem to be able to build everything (slowly) in my laptop's 2GB of
>memory, and I might be able to get away with 1GB; I'm not sure.
>However, if I had more I could put sbuild in tmpfs for a huge speed
>boost.
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