Fedora distribution build times

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:24:41PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I would like to know as to how long it takes to build a complete
> Fedora distribution, say i686, from .src.rpms.
> 
> Are there any statistics available or is it possible to provide any
> info on the hardware specifications (RAM, number of processors, kernel
> used etc.), time it takes to build the complete Fedora distribution,
> and other build related statistics?

It took my build system 96 hours to build all of rawhide (>10k
packages) for both x86_64 and i386.  Builders are 10 Dell PowerEdge
1955 servers, each with 2 sockets 3GHz Xeon 5160 CPUs (4 cores each),
8GB RAM.  Builders running Fedora 14.


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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO