[Mageia-sysadm] multiple builds on each nodes

[nicolas vigier]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Thomas Backlund wrote:

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> Yep, it takes 2 kernel builds to get all cpus maxed out on jonund
>
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> and here is where the io comes in:
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> during unpackaging and repackaging of big tarballs, and when compressing 
> the modules and generating the binary rpms (especially kernel -debug rpms 
> are huge)... at this point cpu goes down and io is kept busy...
>
> So here it would help if the other build would be running on another disk...

Yes, adding a second disk would help for the parts that use a lot of IO.
So we can plan to add this for next time someone go to datacenter in
Marseille.

However, even without a second disk, it seems it is already a little
faster with 2 builds on each nodes.