[cfarm-users] Future of cfarm186/cfarm187/cfarm188 at OSUOSL

[Baptiste Jonglez]

Let's please all cool down and avoid needless confrontation on this topic.

The compile farm has always been about *both* usages: porting free software to exotic
systems, but also having access to larger machines than a typical developer workstation.

The two usages have always coexisted and can continue to coexist without issues.

Access to large "standard" machines may be a bit less relevant today than
it was 20 years ago, but it is still appreciable to have free and easy
access to machines with lots of CPU cores.  Not everybody can afford to
buy or rent such hardware, and in any case it makes sense to share the
hardware because a developer workload is very far from using 100% of CPU
resources 100% of the time.

Baptiste

On 25-01-26, Ville Voutilainen via cfarm-users wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 at 01:41, mirabilos via cfarm-users
> <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
> >
> > Jonathan Wakely via cfarm-users dixit:
> >
> > > IMHO it would be a waste of very powerful and valuable hardware (and
> > > admin time) to have too many obscure, niche systems that most users
> > > are never going to use.
> >
> > But that’s what the farm is *for*!
> 
> Sure. But it's also for..
> 
> > > Allowing many users to run large builds in parallel for software like
> > > GCC and LLVM seems like a better user of resources than installing
> > > toys that need lots of admin time and custom setup.
> >
> > You can do THAT on clouds and the likes, too.
> 
> ..this. And I can't, I don't have clouds and the likes, I need to use
> the farm to run the GCC/libstdc++ testsuite,
> and so do others.
> 
> > Incidentally, I think running large builds in parallel would be
> > an arsehole move to occupy a system all for yourself and very
> > inconsiderate towards other cfarm users.
> 
> None of us occupy a system all for ourselves, but we do run large
> builds in parallel on the farm machines, because we need to.
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