Debian Project Pleased with Ten Times Faster Build Server

” The Debian project was given a new server from Thomas Krenn
AG, Intel and Adaptec for its image building. With the Dual-Xeon
computer the build process was reduced from 20 to two hours. New in
Debian’s infrastructure is the SC846 server with a 4-unit height
and two Intel Xeon E5540 processors. While the previous
five-year-old system took 20 hours for a build, the new one took
less than two hours, according to the project and its benefactor,
Thomas Krenn AG, in a joint press release. A build speed factor of
ten? “The people at Thomas Krenn were just as excited as we were,”
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl of the Debian press team revealed to
Linux Magazine Online. Debian project lead Steve McIntyre went
further: “To get the best possible out of the new system, I ran a
series of benchmarks with various configurations: various RAID
levels, various filesystems and so on. The figures that emerged
were truly astounding.”

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