Re: Good news, bad news on the repository conversion

[Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>]

On 07/09/2018 10:53 AM, Janus Weil wrote:
> 2018-07-09 18:35 GMT+02:00 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:
>> David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>:
>>>> The truth is we're near the bleeding edge of what conventional tools
>>>> and hardware can handle gracefully.  Most jobs with working sets as
>>>> big as this one's do only comparatively dumb operations that can be
>>>> parallellized and thrown on a GPU or supercomputer.  Most jobs with
>>>> the algorithmic complexity of repository surgery have *much* smaller
>>>> working sets.  The combination of both extrema is hard.
>>>
>>> If you come to the conclusion that the GCC Community could help with
>>> resources, such as the GNU Compile Farm or paying for more RAM, let us
>>> know.
>>
>> 128GB of DDR4 registered RAM would allow me to run conversions with my
>> browser up, but be eye-wateringly expensive.  Thanks, but I'm not
>> going to yell for that help
> 
> I for one would certainly be happy to donate some spare bucks towards
> beastie RAM if it helps to get the GCC repo converted to git in a
> timely manner, and I'm sure there are other GCC
> developers/users/sympathizers who'd be willing to join in. So, where
> do we throw those bucks?
I'd be willing to throw some $$$ at this as well.
Jeff