Re: [gentoo-project] Looking for resources to run 'repositories mirror & QA' project

[Peter Wilmott]

On 04/17/15 10:12, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> I'd like to start a new Gentoo-related project and I'm looking for
> someone that would be interested in providing the hardware for it.

I have a dedicated server which I'm currently underutilizing. It's not
the best box but if no one else has anything to offer I'm more than
happy to let you use it.

Specs:
	CPU : Intel Xeon W3520 @ 2.66 GHz+
	MEM : 16GB EEC
	HDD : 2 x 2TB @ RAID 1

It has some scheduled tasks which max the CPU for a few hours at 00:00
UTC, but other than that it sits idle just serving tiny amounts of web
traffic.

> Eventually I'd like to try to off-load the mirroring somewhere
> (github?), so that's a minor concern. However, the cloning (even with
> --depth 1) is going to be network and disk space hungry, and egencache
> & pcheck will need a lot of CPU power.

Do you have some ballpark figures here?

For disk space you could probably use around 1TB, network traffic should
not be an issue (within reason) as I have unlimited usage @ 250Mbps.

> For a test, best try running pcheck on gentoo-x86 and see how long it
> takes. We'd be parallelizing it but more than, say, 40 minutes for
> the whole repository would be bad.

If you can give me an easy set of setup instructions I can verify the
time taken for you.

> Aside from that, I'd like SSH access to set it all up (I'm limited on
> time, so no game-fun proxy setup). I don't need root access if someone
> can install all the necessary dependencies for me. Gentoo is preferred
> but not necessary (I already have the setup needed to run pcheck
> outside Gentoo).
>
> Plus preferably 'systemd --user' instance or some fun cron.

Happy for you to have shell access. Not running systemd but I'm sure we
can work something else out :)

Kind regards,

Peter