Re: New thread RDSL, post-2.6.20 kernels and amanda (tar) miss-fires

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 March 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> >On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:31:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> Now, can someone suggest a patch I can revert that might fix this?
>> >> The total number of patches between 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc1 will have
>> >> me building kernels to bisect this till the middle of June at this
>> >> rate.
>> >
>> >4 billion patches could be bisected in 34 boots. Between 2.6.20 and
>> >2.6.21-rc1 there are only:
>> >
>> >$ git rev-list --no-merges v2.6.20..v2.6.21-rc1  |wc -l
>> >3118
>> >
>> >patches, requiring 14 boots. In general ceil(log(n)/log(2))+2 boots.
>> >
>> >Of course, this is a little optimistic because it assumes no
>> > additional breakage occurring at the various bisection points. In
>> > any event, assuming (pessimistically) 10 minutes per build, this is
>> > 280 minutes or 4 hours and 40 minutes of build time. I estimate the
>> > process should complete well before Friday of this week, never mind
>> > June.
>
>On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:09:57AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Chuckle, sorry to disappoint you wli, on that 32 cpu Niagra Con was
>> calling 'poor equipment', maybe.
>> Even using  ccache, its about 15-18 minutes per build, with another 10
>> to edit my build script and construct the kernel tree with the proper
>> patches applied.  Then a reboot, probably 10 minutes by the time I get
>> the nvidia driver installed for the new kernel and get startx'd, then
>> its another 2 hours or a bit less for an amanda run to test it.
>
>2 hours, 48 minutes times 13 boots (see the correction post) is 36
>hours, 24 minutes. One attempt a day (24 hours instead of 2 hours, 48
>minutes) yyields 2 weeks. So you're still done by April, not June.
>

Back to the original theme of this thread, 2.6.20.3 works, now I'm booted 
to 2.6.20.3-rdsl-0.30 and trying that.  And 10 minutes into it, its going 
to be good from the looks of an amstatus report.


>
>-- wli



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