Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ...
by officeplant on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @04:41PM
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My mind was blown when I had to send a fully logged 5 minutes of system operation to a friend for diagnostics (MacOS 11 on an M1 Mini). He wasn't joking when he said don't go over a few minutes because the main 256GB system drive almost ran out of space in that time. After getting it compressed down from 80GB and sent over I got my mind blown again when he explained he had to move to his workstation with 512+gb of ram just to open the damn file.
Every build gets fully tested at maximum TRACE logging, so that anyone who looks at the build / test later can search the logs for the bug.
8TBs of storage is a $200 hard drive. Fill it up, save everything. Buy 5 hard drives, copy data across them redundantly with ZFS and stuff.
1TBs of SSD storage is $100 (for 4GBps) to $200 (for 7GBps). Copy data from the hard drive array on the build server to the local workstation as you try to debug what went wrong in some unit test.