Windows PECL build machine died

.. should have written "making the cpus run hotter and clock lower and
harming single-thread performance without significantly increasing total
throughput, sometimes even harming total throughput" - and making it harder
to see how much actual cpu is being used by a process (a process
seemingly using 50% of a physical core might actually be using near 100% of
a core, but you can't see it in htop because HT makes it look like
50%/the-ht-core-looks-ready-to-go-even-if-it-isn't) - comparatively AMD's
SMT seems to nearly always increase total throughput.

On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 at 23:56, Hans Henrik Bergan divinity76@gmail.com
wrote:

10 days of radio silence? What's going on? anyway benchmarks (countsey of
bench.sh ) of the server/bandwidth

-------------------- A Bench.sh Script By Teddysun -------------------
Version : v2022-06-01
Usage : wget -qO- bench.sh | bash

CPU Model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7- 4870 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores : 40 @ 2524.597 MHz
CPU Cache : 30720 KB
AES-NI : Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : Enabled
Total Disk : 393.6 GB (48.7 GB Used)
Total Mem : 125.9 GB (12.0 GB Used)
Total Swap : 8.0 GB (0 Used)
System uptime : 10 days, 2 hour 11 min
Load average : 40.18, 40.10, 40.13
OS : Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 5.4.0-122-generic
TCP CC : cubic
Virtualization : Dedicated
Organization : AS31798 DataCity
Location : Kitchener / CA
Region : Ontario

I/O Speed(1st run) : 812 MB/s
I/O Speed(2nd run) : 841 MB/s
I/O Speed(3rd run) : 821 MB/s
I/O Speed(average) : 824.7 MB/s

Node Name Upload Speed Download Speed Latency
Speedtest.net 941.15 Mbps 829.87 Mbps 3.09 ms
Los Angeles, US 937.01 Mbps 903.15 Mbps 64.21 ms
Dallas, US 941.23 Mbps 898.69 Mbps 36.36 ms
Montreal, CA 888.80 Mbps 916.91 Mbps 11.09 ms
Paris, FR 886.36 Mbps 820.77 Mbps 90.50 ms
Amsterdam, NL 854.88 Mbps 770.73 Mbps 98.16 ms
Shanghai, CN 426.16 Mbps 833.23 Mbps 216.21 ms
Nanjing, CN 439.53 Mbps 542.91 Mbps 198.60 ms
Seoul, KR 465.37 Mbps 367.20 Mbps 216.88 ms
Singapore, SG 417.93 Mbps 132.76 Mbps 212.71 ms
Tokyo, JP 668.62 Mbps 676.35 Mbps 134.48 ms

Finished in : 5 min 35 sec
Timestamp : 2022-07-22 21:35:37 UTC

• it incorrectly says 393GB because of partitioning, it's actually 1TB

• I've intentionally disabled Hyperthreading because... in my
  opinion/experience, hyperthreading implementations in older Intel CPUs
  often did more harm than good, making the cpus run hotter and clock lower,
  this is a (high-end) 2011 model. (I have the opposite experience with AMD
  SMT fwiw)

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 at 01:18, Hans Henrik Bergan divinity76@gmail.com
wrote:

Fwiw Chris Haas / vendiadvertising.com has reached out, they're willing
to sponsor raid(1) if my proposal is accepted.
Haas is reading this mailing list, but does not wish to participate/post
directly at present.
(I have no prior relation, never heard of them before today)

On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 22:31, Hans Henrik Bergan divinity76@gmail.com
wrote:

i have a 40-core 128GB RAM server with 1 (and only 1) static ipv4
address that I intend to keep around until at least 27 november 2025 (but
unsure after that),
it has more RAM/CPU than i need, and i could set up a virtual machine on
it and give VNC access to the VM in the form of

ssh -L 9999:localhost:3389 user@ip
then point a RDP/VNC client to localhost:9999
i can dedicate individual TCP ports to it, but not any of 22, 80, 443,
5900, 5901, 8083, 9999, 587, 2525
(after which i can recommend Teamviewer for a more comfortable access)

but the server has several caveats:

• it's un-raided, rolling just a single 1TB SSD, if that SSD was to die,
  everything on it would be lost, and it would probably take days to replace
  the drive.
• it's located in a somewhat unstable environment, occasional power
  outage, it was out on 30 june, 23 june, 27 january, and in 2021 was down on
  30 august. (it boots up and recovers automatically, but it has a reboot
  time of roughly 300 seconds until ssh responds again)
• I can not offer a dedicated IP (but can offer some dedicated ports)
• May be decommissioned after 27-11-2025

If that sounds like a good idea, I'll want a ssh public key.

On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 15:38, Christoph M. Becker cmbecker69@gmx.de
wrote:

Any of you windows.php.net guys familiar with SSH? Can one be
created?

That would be possible (needed to be set-up by Alex Schoenmaker), but
while that could solve the upload issue, it wouldn't solve the other
issue I've mentioned, namely that we need to avoid dynamically linking
against incompatible versions of dependencies. And there is yet another
issue, namely security. I think these issues can only be solved by some
central place where the packages are build.

On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 19:52, Christoph M. Becker cmbecker69@gmx.de
wrote:

Is there any SSH public key associated with the Windows php
developers?
Or
with CMB?

No. At least not regarding windows.php.net.

On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 18:25, Christoph M. Becker <
cmbecker69@gmx.de>
wrote:

Do you mean it is unlikely that Github Actions will suffice?
because
that
would definitely be a great solution if it was possible/feasible .

No. It is only unlikely that automated uploads to window.php.net
will
ever be possible using GH actions.

Anyway, with regards to "I don't think there are special
requirements
regarding the hardware", can you give a rough estimate on RAM/disk
space
requirements?

The old machine had something like 4 or 8 GB RAM, and a 128 GB hard
disk.