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 1Mjt8N-0000by-6Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:08:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2380E0B26; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 11:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spunkymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (caiajhbdcbbj.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.119]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCBCE0B26 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 11:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.69.3] (40.Red-83-40-11.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [83.40.11.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by spunkymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C04D109F28 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 04:08:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AA2465B.80805@hiramoto.org> Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:07:07 +0200 From: Karl Hiramoto User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090828) 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 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] personal compile-farm ? References: <3ea34a000909050348n7694c2cfj837cb1540515d1a8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3ea34a000909050348n7694c2cfj837cb1540515d1a8@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0fe03e3d-a3b9-4bcf-9954-8fbeaca67393 X-Archives-Hash: d8576f94d75c47588a9e0034b440b429 Christopher Friedt wrote: > 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? > > I don't have an atom myself but from looking at the specs, for the same amount of money, i'd think you'd be better of with a single machine with lots of RAM and 4 to 8 cores with lots of cache for compiling. Then multiple of those more powerful machines if you need. -- -- Karl Hiramoto http://karl.hiramoto.org/