From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mjsox-0004hg-J3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:48:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 956B2E0B08; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 10:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758D2E0B08 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 10:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so8383yxe.32 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:48:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=73AX49D4mh4I+YwxOMFLKLvXgEqzVklK9hdaH9nRAH8=; b=NbqjdRhXqQTMB1Rk2ZxiLNKUzbzMOxE9TqePclV/0/gVXmPf3Y9HjGeYPk+51Kny2L OK98ZDiZ9lktNUzIhNaw2rWdqewHfy6q8Y90BpbMfET5HiLMO00lqe/qYOrGEva+B9h3 wjVPoctnyStE/p7dYtrWQioWKIdQfSMDoIFNU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=iUO7vQnqg5dwhvm6tfXa1lJHcrDrvQiwql1KAi76Btpf3AhWWj5iRm/XgS9fMbkjFV 5A4rbyo3UXgzkOuvMSWhSFJwe3fInpOcMcvIr2yXkCZP4zzFrlUZN1OJrjX24ppwxI0B IKhAE5AiP5PaBjvUFR2wC7iFNYKc/uZrMRbS8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.240.4 with SMTP id n4mr20341431ybh.1.1252147717849; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:48:37 +0200 Message-ID: <3ea34a000909050348n7694c2cfj837cb1540515d1a8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-embedded] personal compile-farm ? From: Christopher Friedt To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: f88736c3-f555-4a7c-99d8-2e3c24986c8d X-Archives-Hash: a293c4ac37c50f2a342fd3f3641958e1 Hi everyone, For a long time I've been considering various mini-itx form-factor devices for multi-purpose use at home, as an HTPC, NAS, maybe messing around with osx86, etc. One particular use that I wanted to make of such a device would be to use it as my own personal compile-farm, for various arm cross-compilation builds, and binary packages for my laptop / netbook. Recently, I was considering the Zotac IONITX-A. I would consider this a fairly powerful, yet low-power device, with an Atom 330 dual-core processor at 1.6 GHz and nVidia GPU ( Ion / 9400m ). I'm more than certain that it would work well as an HTPC, but for a personal build machine, I'd like to hear some feedback. Does anyone on the list have a similar network-appliance that they use for a personal compile-farm ? Neither of my aging x86 machines offer any CPU features greater than sse2, and neither have multiple-cores. For those who have a multi-core compile-farm at home, is there a largely noticeable difference in speed? If anyone does have a Zotac IONITX-A, how is the heat dissipation? Fan or no fan? Cheers, Chris On a slightly related note PS: Alternatively, there has been some mention [1] of a dual-core Ion-based device for the next AppleTV model or Mac Mini. [1] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-mac-nvidia-ion,6849.html