Re: [boost] Testing Farm

From: Martin Slater (mslater_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-21 06:22:47

> Well, that obviously depends a lot on the speed of the computer.

Well yes;) Ballpark figure was all i was after, the computer is a p4 3.4ghz.

> For a single toolset to test with, 10-12h are definitely sufficient, 
> even on a slightly outdated CPU and with rebuilding everything from 
> scratch. Don't run the tests with less than .5 GB of RAM.

Got a gb so that would be fine.

 > I don't think anybody runs tests using distcc. However, I know at
 > least Boost 1.31.0 can be built using distcc and with -j4 (someone
 > told > me that just yesterday on IRC). IIUC, there's nothing that
 > should prevent distcc from working fine with Boost.Build (of course,
 > you  need sufficiently similar boxes). In fact, it would be a good
 > thing to test with distcc.

Good to hear.

cheers

Martin