Willy Tarreau
A well known storyAll those who run a small infrastructure at home know this problem. It's Monday morning, while drinking your first coffee you're checking your e-mails, you find that you received surprisingly few during the night, and that the last one was from 5 hours ago. Then this well-known...
Willy Tarreau
BackgroundTwo weeks ago, in early May, Tom Cubie of Radxa asked me if I would be interested in testing their new ROCK 5 ITX board. I've followed a little bit the development of this really nice board, and Tom probably valued some of my tests and comments during the ROCK 5B debug party. And he...
Willy Tarreau
BackgroundBack in April, the hardware news site cnx-software featured a very nice new small Linux board called Breadbee, that was designed and still being developed by one of the site's readers, Daniel Palmer (aka 'dgp'). The board has many unique particularities that appealed me:it is small, very...
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...
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...