From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6306 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2018 19:51:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 6294 invoked by uid 89); 9 Jul 2018 19:51:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: albireo.enyo.de Received: from albireo.enyo.de (HELO albireo.enyo.de) (5.158.152.32) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Jul 2018 19:51:12 +0000 Received: from [172.17.203.2] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by albireo.enyo.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) id 1fccBe-0000IR-Rh; Mon, 09 Jul 2018 19:51:06 +0000 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1fcc85-00074t-Dd; Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:47:25 +0200 From: Florian Weimer To: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) Cc: Mailing List , Mark Atwood Subject: Re: Good news, bad news on the repository conversion References: <20180709002754.962F43A4AA7@snark.thyrsus.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 19:51:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20180709002754.962F43A4AA7@snark.thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Sun, 8 Jul 2018 20:27:54 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: <87fu0sdwdu.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00138.txt.bz2 * Eric S. Raymond: > The bad news is that my last test run overran the memnory capacity of > the 64GB Great Beast. I shall have to find some way of reducing the > working set, as 128GB DD4 memory is hideously expensive. Do you need interactive access to the machine, or can we run the job for you? If your application is not NUMA-aware, we probably need something that has 128 GiB per NUMA node, which might be bit harder to find, but I'm sure many of us have suitable lab machines which could be temporarily allocated for that purpose.