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Re: Good news, bad news on the repository conversion
- From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- Cc: Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 16:03:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: Good news, bad news on the repository conversion
- References: <20180709002754.962F43A4AA7@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fu0sdwdu.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
- Reply-to: esr at thyrsus dot com
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>:
> * Eric S. Raymond:
>
> > 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.
>
> Do you need interactive access to the machine, or can we run the job
> for you?
>
> If your application is not NUMA-aware, we probably need something that
> has 128 GiB per NUMA node, which might be bit harder to find, but I'm
> sure many of us have suitable lab machines which could be temporarily
> allocated for that purpose.
I would need interactive access.
But that's now one level way from the principal problem; there is
somme kind of recent metadata damage - or maybe some "correct" but
weird and undocumented stream semantics that reposurgeon doesn't know
how to emulate - that is blocking correct conversion.
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