[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS release-team] release-team jabber meeting August the 28th

[Derek Atkins]

Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> writes:

> On 09/10/2013 10:58 AM, Andrew Deason wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:43:29 -0400
>> Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>>
>>>> A build slave can be behind a NAT but if so it must be administered
>>>> by someone with NAT access.
>>> Why?  Does the master need to be able to TCP-Connect() to the slave?
>> No, the slave connects to the master. You (or someone behind the NAT)
>> just need to handle upgrading or fixing buildbot itself (or anything
>> else on the box) if it breaks or needs upgrading or whatever.
>>
>>>> The goal for a build slave is that it can perform a git checkout and
>>>> build the tree in under 20 minutes.   The network/cpu/disk-space
>>>> requirements are those necessary to achieve that goal.
>>> Alas, that doesn't give me a good estimate of required network or cpu.
>>> For disk space I'm guessing the slave doesn't keep many builds around?
>> No, it doesn't keep any builds after they're done. You just need the
>> disk space for a single build, the git repo, and maybe a little bit for
>> logs and buildbot overhead. The latter I believe is very small compared
>> to any of the other items.
>>
> The entire disk partition that contains the buildbot master and slave
> is 6GB with ~3GB used.

Well, in that case, I have a VM server that I'm willing to leverage for
a few Fedora and/or CentOS slaves if you can use them.  I'm happy to
host and administer the slaves.  (Beyond just a few slaves might tax the
hardware too much, affecting the other VMs; the host is currently
memory-bound and extending the RAM is way expensive because it requires
8 sticks of DDR2).

-derek

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