HEADS UP: Merge of binutils 2.17

[Erik Cederstrand]

Hello Pav,

Den 08/01/2011 kl. 20.34 skrev Pav Lucistnik:

> Package cluster is quite clever, akshully, and since this is OT here,
> just terse comments

Sorry, replied to a bad message... redirecting to current@

>>> 1. adding SSD disks
> 
> irrelevant because of bullet 2.
> 
>>> 2. source and destination directories on md devices
> 
> already done, swap backed md devices are used
> 
>>> 3. huge ccache cache
>>> 4. dist-cc
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> these tend to have their own issues
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>>> 5. some heuristics on which ports could be skipped because dependencies haven't changed since last run
> 
> this is also already done, we call it "incremental builds"
> 
>>> 6. tuning the host system for this specific task
> 
> empty words

I was pretty sure I couldn't improve anything with 5 minutes of thinking. I'm glad the most obvious things have already been done, and I'm sure you and others have put a lot of effort into this. My question was more what, if anything, can be done to speed up the cluster.

Also, how long does it take to complete an exp-run on the cluster?

Thanks,
Erik