build farm

Apr 07 2019

Better cooling for the build farm

Willy Tarreau

Purpose After creating the 3rd version of my build farm I figured the cooling was not optimal due to the thermal tape having a non negligible resistance. I sketched an idea of a variation of the cooling system involving a thick aluminum thermal plate to conduct the heat to a large heatsink. The...

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Jan 06 2019

Build farm, version 3 (2018)

Willy Tarreau

[this is a follow-up to this article on version 2 of the build farm] Background The MiQi-based build farms had been running very well both at home and at work over the last 2 years. I noticed that some very large files in haproxy totally dominate the build time (notably cfgparse.c), and can keep...

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