Re: Someone installed an aarch64 Christmas gift: There is now a ampere4 with 150 or so FreeBSD CPUs and 24 builders running in parallel

On 12/25/25 18:06, Mark Millard wrote:
> On Dec 25, 2025, at 15:10, Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> ampere4 was showing 52.27 for the short term load
>> average and that that was 33%. So, something like
>> 150+ FreeBSD CPUs (1 per core I assume), if I
>> understand right.
>>
>> The Jobs Id's were 01 .. 24 , so 24 poudriere builders.
>>
>> It was also showing: SwapInfo 100.00% when I looked
>> at that. So it may currently be RAM+SWAP limited for
>> its current configuration.
>>
>> ampere4 was building 150arm64-quarterly. In 21:45:36
>> it had built 10802 port-packages, including 9 that
>> had taken over 10 hours to build and 10 more that
>> had taken over 5 hrs to build (top 15 completed
>> time takers as of when I looked).
>>
>> Hmm. It just showed a 105.?? load average with a 66%
>> figure. (I do not remember the ?? digits.) That is
>> a mean of well over 3 per builder. (For all I know
>> ampere4 could be doing other things as well as the
>> port-package builds.)
>>
>> Having ampere4 in use ought to help with the aarch64
>> port package build-times issues, even if ampere1
>> continues to fail fairly frequently.
> 
> Looking at the Ampere site, it looks like ampere4 is
> a 160 core AmpereOne or AmpereOne M system. The "M"
> as more RAM channels but only up to 1.5 TiBytes: 1 DIMM
> per channel, 12 channels. The plain AmpereOne can have
> 4 TiBytes: 1 or 2 DIMMs per channel, 8 channels.
> 
> I've no clue how much RAM ampere4 actually has, or what
> its RAM+SWAP figure is as configured.
> 
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
> 
> 

Nice...  It'll be good to see packaging lags reduced on my Apple Silicon 
VMs.

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