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Re: Good news, bad news on the repository conversion
- From: Janus Weil <janus at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus dot com>
- Cc: Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 09:18:23 +0200
- Subject: Re: Good news, bad news on the repository conversion
- References: <20180709002754.962F43A4AA7@snark.thyrsus.com>
2018-07-09 2:27 GMT+02:00 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:
> There is good news bad news on the GCC repository conversion.
>
> The good news is that I have solved the only known remaining technical
> problem in reposurgeon blocking the conversion. I've fixed the bug
> that prevented execute permissions from being carried by branch
> copies.
Great to hear that there is progress on that front!
> The bad news is that my last test run overran the memnory capacity of
> the 64GB Great Beast. I shall have to find some way of reducing the
> working set, as 128GB DD4 memory is hideously expensive.
Or maybe you could use a machine from the GCC compile farm?
According to https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm, there are three
machines with at least 128GB available (gcc111, gcc112, gcc119).
Cheers,
Janus