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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] how to use spare server resources
From: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster () gmx ! de>
Date: 2014-10-30 16:47:20
Message-ID: 54526B98.5090201 () gmx ! de
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On 10/30/2014 11:19 AM, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 29/10/14 19:03, Toralf Förster wrote:
> > I own a dedicated server (i-3770, 4 real + 4 HT cores w/ 3.4 GHz)
> > with 16 GB RAM and 2 x 3 TB hard disk, 1 GBit/s network.
> >
> > Currently 7.6 cpus do run idle at 1.6 GHz (cpu governor ondemand), 10
> > GB RAM are unused and 4.5 TB disk are not even allocated. It might be
> > that I oversized it for the current purpose.
> >
> > I'm wondering how to use the spare CPU cycles. Compile-test of the
> > kernel ("make randconfig") made sense in the past, but during the
> > last few years it became fruitless. Currently I do polish my BOINC
> > rank for Einstein@Home and World Community Grid.
> >
> > What came into my mind; what's about chroot's test scenarios and so
> > on. Any ideas and/or links ?
> >
>
> If you want to help us (libav) providing additional test instances[1]
> would be quite nice =) asan and valgrind instances are hungry =)
>
> [1] https://www.libav.org/fate.html#Automated-Tests
>
Hhm, sounds as a nifty starting point.
There's a chicken-egg problem at that web page I do wonder about: How do I get the \
fate.sh script (via git clone ?) to fetch the git sources ?
;-)
Well, will use the already fetched package here at my desktop ...
--
Toralf
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