From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 05:23:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F15916A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 05:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.pelleg.org (gw.pelleg.org [205.201.13.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035C343D45 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 05:23:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daniel+bsd@pelleg.org) Received: from lank.here (lank.wburn [192.168.3.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "gw.pelleg.org", Issuer "Dan Pelleg" (verified OK)) by gw.pelleg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE6A5A04; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:23:22 -0500 (EST) Received: by lank.here (Postfix, from userid 7675) id C1D4A334; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:23:19 -0500 (EST) To: Kris Kennaway References: <20040310110526.GA94997@xor.obsecurity.org> <404EFECE.40408@circlesquared.com> <20040311045737.GB11748@xor.obsecurity.org> From: Dan Pelleg Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:23:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20040311045737.GB11748@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:57:37 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: Peter Risdon cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Compiling Packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:23:29 -0000 Kris Kennaway writes: [...] >> And can building be scheduled for off-peak times? > > Right now, not easily. Over the next few months I hope to rewrite the > build process to use Sun GridEngine, which will allow much more > flexible control over which machines to use for which builds. At that > time I should be able to make better use of smaller remote build > resources, but for now the only thing that would be really useful to > me is a large cluster on a single LAN. > This is great news. You can now rent a machine for a month for around $70 (plus setup fees). Not a virtual host or a shared jailed environment (on these you'll get frowned on for using 100% CPU). This much gets you real root on a colocated physical machine. So, trust issues aside, it looks like it is becoming much more practical to rent (or receive donations of) remote hardware on a need basis, rather than to own all of it all of the time. -- Dan Pelleg