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From: Janus Weil <janus@gcc.gnu.org>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: Mailing List <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>, Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Good news, bad news on the repository conversion
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 07:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwh3qgKjXYfp8RWLYOOR8h6zbbtw-F+gya1KuDnmLf=54j5eA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180709002754.962F43A4AA7@snark.thyrsus.com>

2018-07-09 2:27 GMT+02:00 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:
> There is good news bad news on the GCC repository conversion.
>
> The good news is that I have solved the only known remaining technical
> problem in reposurgeon blocking the conversion.  I've fixed the bug
> that prevented execute permissions from being carried by branch
> copies.

Great to hear that there is progress on that front!


> 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.

Or maybe you could use a machine from the GCC compile farm?

According to https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm, there are three
machines with at least 128GB available (gcc111, gcc112, gcc119).

Cheers,
Janus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-09  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-09  0:28 Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-09  2:09 ` Jason Merrill
2018-07-09  7:18 ` Janus Weil [this message]
2018-07-09 10:16   ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-09 13:59     ` David Edelsohn
2018-07-09 16:35       ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-09 16:53         ` Janus Weil
2018-07-09 16:57           ` Jeff Law
2018-07-09 18:05             ` Paul Smith
2018-07-10  8:10               ` Jonathan Wakely
2018-07-10  9:14             ` Aldy Hernandez
2018-07-11  3:31               ` Mark Atwood
2018-07-11  4:29                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-11  8:27                   ` Alec Teal
2018-07-09 17:18         ` David Edelsohn
2018-07-09 18:16     ` David Malcolm
2018-07-09  8:40 ` Martin Liška
2018-07-09 19:51 ` Florian Weimer
2018-07-09 20:04   ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-10  8:10     ` Alec Teal
2018-07-10  8:11       ` Jonathan Wakely
2018-07-20 21:36 ` Joseph Myers
2018-07-20 23:47   ` Eric S. Raymond

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