[gentoo-dev] how to use spare server resources

[gentoo-dev] how to use spare server resources

[Toralf Förster]

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 ?

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Toralf
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Re: [gentoo-dev] how to use spare server resources

[Toralf Förster]

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 ...


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Toralf
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