Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:40:12 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@haven.freebsd.dk> Cc: gnn@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org>, "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> Subject: Re: Summary: experiences with NanoBSD, successes and nits on a Soekris 4801 Message-ID: <20050705224012.GB28034@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <2056.1120597435@phk.freebsd.dk> References: <20050705205956.GD49841@decibel.org> <2056.1120597435@phk.freebsd.dk>
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--jho1yZJdad60DJr+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:03:55PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20050705205956.GD49841@decibel.org>, "Jim C. Nasby" writes: > >On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:44:49PM +0900, gnn@freebsd.org wrote: > >> At Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:25:34 +0200, > >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> > I played with developing that graph by removing lines from LINT > >> > and see what compiled and what didn't. Based on the progress I > >> > made I would estimate the full graph will take about 1 CPU-year to > >> > calculate by trial&error. > >>=20 > >> Hmm. Well, either I need a very fast CPU, or a more clever approach. > >> I guess we'll see... > > > >How hard would it be to distribute this? >=20 > It could trivially be distributed, but I think it is better to use > a bit of brain to get a smarter approach first :-) A CPU year isn't all that bad. Write a bit of code to submit it as a set of SGE jobs and I can turn it around in a few days without much trouble. We produce a bit over a CPU year per day on our FreeBSD cluster. :-) We regularly run problems that take a few CPU decades. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --jho1yZJdad60DJr+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCywxMXY6L6fI4GtQRAijoAJoDiKGoIRucmt4KcFz22D/u42AoiQCgs+lu XbBnRZWszYSn+eSBwyr9MCY= =Jfoj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jho1yZJdad60DJr+--
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