Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:23:18 -0500 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Compiling Packages Message-ID: <u2sr7vz34c9.fsf@pelleg.org> In-Reply-To: <20040311045737.GB11748@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:57:37 -0800") References: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0403100540560.3804@Treneq> <20040310110526.GA94997@xor.obsecurity.org> <404EFECE.40408@circlesquared.com> <20040311045737.GB11748@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: [...] >> And can building be scheduled for off-peak times? > > Right now, not easily. Over the next few months I hope to rewrite the > build process to use Sun GridEngine, which will allow much more > flexible control over which machines to use for which builds. At that > time I should be able to make better use of smaller remote build > resources, but for now the only thing that would be really useful to > me is a large cluster on a single LAN. > This is great news. You can now rent a machine for a month for around $70 (plus setup fees). Not a virtual host or a shared jailed environment (on these you'll get frowned on for using 100% CPU). This much gets you real root on a colocated physical machine. So, trust issues aside, it looks like it is becoming much more practical to rent (or receive donations of) remote hardware on a need basis, rather than to own all of it all of the time. -- Dan Pelleg
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