Comments on: Hurry up and wait … for that image to build.

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:33:50 +0000

Thanks to a contributor to be named later, we now have a new dual proc quad core Xeon build server! Initial testing shows very significant reductions in build times, this will certainly help make us more productive.

By: Luiz Vaz

Luiz Vaz — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:03:29 +0000

And what about if we start a campaing like wikipedia does?
We setup a target, let me say anything about $20.000 and let people donate.

I’m thinking in something like this: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising?source=enwiki_04

The donors will have their names written with the amount donated.
And small amount will be accepted too, like $10 and more.
Because the single amount doesn’t matter but the bunch of donations.

TIA

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:38:00 +0000

Hell, id buy ya parts and i dont even use pfsence…just stoping by to read whats new. As for Ram disks, our x64 has 16GB of its memory dedicated to one storing our db. Yep its quick. http://www.supermicro.com might give ya one.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:28:57 +0000

Everybody and their mother can build a cheap quad-core PC these days. Yah, it still cost some money, but you don’t need a Dell/HP/IBM server. Get some good parts, and you can push up a Q9450 CPU a bit with overclocking to get 25-35% more speed. ‘Can’t do that with server hardware. I’d be happy to put together a perfect wish list on NewEgg per [H]ardforum best practices. Maybe people can buy you each part separately as a donation and just build it.

By: Michel

Michel — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:25:52 +0000

It would be a great option to have distcc in a future pfSense distro ?
That way a lot of firewalls can be (optionally) enabled to do some builds in their spare time… eg. like having a schedule at night to help building.

For instance my pfSense isn’t working at all during night hours (well occasionally some SMTP traffic, but that would be it)

If that option would be in a pfSense version, I will certainly enable it…

By: Scott Ullrich

Scott Ullrich — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:25:30 +0000

We have tried distcc which did not help much at all. Give it a shot and report back if you can make it work.. It did not work well enough to warrant the trouble when we tested.

By: Sami

Sami — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:21:09 +0000

Why not run a distributed compiling system? Is there a reason why all your compiling is done on a single box?

By: Eirik Øverby

Eirik Øverby — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:20:08 +0000

Hi,
I might be able to get you access to some hardware like what you request (dual quad-core xeon 3ghz), however you’d have to access it remotely..
If your current deal doesn’t go through, and this is interesting, let me know and I’ll see what I can dig up.
/Eirik

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:48:07 +0000

It looks like we have a donor providing us a full machine. Our next thought if that doesn’t work out is to piece it out and hope we can get enough pieces to build something. Looks like we’ll be getting a complete system though.

By: Anders

Anders — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:24:36 +0000

is it possible to upgrade your current hardware? I would gladly contribute with 200 dollars to support your great work. I am a very happy user of pfsense at home and in my small IT company.