ericbsd, I wrote "ideally",
as you have seen we can build on the current server at a rate of approx 250 pkgs per hour.
by using separate disks, SSDs, UFS without journaling and other tweaks we can increase the build speed, as I said, we can fallback to what we can achieve.

to recap, and after that I stop spamming:
ideally:

2 x 300 GB SSD (ccache + swap + /usr/ports + OS
+
2 x 2 TB (repo amd64 + repo i386)

Of course, if that is not possible we will fallback to a lower configuration.

because synth will run several concurrent builders, ideally we may want to distribute the I/O load across as many disks as possible:

- making multiple swap partition, on different disks
- ccache should also reside on a separate SSD disk
- distfiles and repository on another disk

You get the idea.

I will make a test this night on the server ... to get a more precise approximation.

on my own machine, 718 pkgs (many are large pkgs, the average will be a bit lower): /usr/ports -> 13 GB (that include distfiles and possibly some outdated distfiles accumulated between updates ...) repository -> 2.3 GB whole repo: 27.000 pkgs ~= (13 + 2.3) *27.000 / 718 ~= 575 GB (amd64) add 500 GB ...

Lets wait for ericbsd opinion too.

It currently has 8 Gigs of RAM and yes, it's running. I can add your SSH key anytime and give you the IP (now the final one). We will make use of it as a mirror, building packages require more resources really: libreoffice require approx 5 GB of RAM chromium require 8 GB (but then you need ram for ...

kraileth wrote:At least for now we could well use the Euro server that I created for the project and that we're not really using, yet. It could e.g. create the i386 packages. Right now it has 4 virtual cores, I think.

How much RAM has this server ?
Is it accessible right now ?

if you want to go with a separate build server, than we can drop the idea of a limited repo altogether and build everything:

dragonfly use a two blade server and was able to build the whole repo in 22 hours, I guess we can easily reach a speed of 500 pkgs per hour .

To clarify a bit of details: actually xfce and mate are using approx 1.000 pkgs each one (most are common of course), out of 1.000 packages, 100 are real user applications, 900 are dependencies packages. My estimation about 10.000 come approximately from: - the above base 1.000 packages - the 100 pa...