[Mageia-sysadm] multiple builds on each nodes

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Sat Apr 9 17:32:24 CEST 2011


On Sat, 09 Apr 2011, Pascal Terjan wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 15:55, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > ulri is now running two builds on each node at the same time.
> >
> > This improve a lot the average time to have a package built, when a big
> > package like libreoffice is in the queue.
> >
> > However I don't know what happens with many smaller packages in the
> > queue. To make sure it is still acceptable, we should do a benchmark.
> >
> > So I propose to make a list of 20 packages that we rebuild, with one
> > build on each node, and again with two builds on each node. And compare
> > the time it took to build all packages, in each case.
> >
> > I plan to do this tonight, when build of libreoffice is finished.
> 
> Another case which I fear is the build of two huge packages (like
> kernel + kernel-tmb)

So we should also try building kernel and kernel-tmb at the same time
on one node. Using iurt directly, to avoid uploading useless new packages.



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