From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 22:40:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D7C16A420; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:40:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336DF43D5D; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:40:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j65MeDDL013304; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:40:13 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j65MeC01013303; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:40:12 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:40:12 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20050705224012.GB28034@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050705205956.GD49841@decibel.org> <2056.1120597435@phk.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jho1yZJdad60DJr+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2056.1120597435@phk.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: gnn@freebsd.org, Robert Watson , current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosehn , "Jim C. Nasby" Subject: Re: Summary: experiences with NanoBSD, successes and nits on a Soekris 4801 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:40:16 -0000 --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+--