| 24 May 2024 |
 connor (he/him) | I've seen a lot of random IO on my builders, so I was thinking about maybe getting one | 21:16:41 |
 Philip Taron (UTC-8) | They go for ~$55-75 USD each on ebay. | 21:20:01 |
| Philip Taron (UTC-8) | Not a lot of downsides if you have the spare M.2 space in your machines. | 21:20:58 |
 SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | Where do you mount these? | 21:21:50 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | As in: how are they more useful than tmpfs? | 21:22:26 |
| Philip Taron (UTC-8) | They're basically not, other than: stable storage and doesn't compete for RAM | 21:23:18 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | Ok how do you use them? | 21:23:52 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | * Ok how do you use them? | 21:24:06 |
| Philip Taron (UTC-8) | https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bcachefs -- yeah, I live on the edge 🙈
They're the "SSD" in front of my actual SSDs | 21:28:12 |
| Philip Taron (UTC-8) | Again, I have done no benchmarking and perceptually, there's no difference. | 21:28:50 |
 aidalgol | SomeoneSerge (UTC+3): Also, what should I do about backporting that PR since the automatic process for doing that failed? | 21:32:42 |
| connor (he/him) | SomeoneSerge (UTC+3): they're basically (slow) non-volatile RAM. Intel initially tried to position it in the datacenter as a tier between fast disks and RAM but it kind of flopped :l
the 4k random read/write is still the best on the market though | 21:33:19 |
| connor (he/him) | Philip Taron (UTC-8): I was looking at the p5800x, which unfortunately doesn't go for that amount :f | 21:35:05 |
| Philip Taron (UTC-8) | Oh yeah, those don't need the crazy software hacks to be made use of like the raw "here's a tiny bit of optane" ones do. | 21:36:21 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | In reply to @aidalgol:matrix.org
SomeoneSerge (UTC+3): Also, what should I do about backporting that PR since the automatic process for doing that failed? You can just follow the instructions posted by the bot and ping me for the merge | 21:39:28 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | In reply to @philiptaron:matrix.org
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bcachefs -- yeah, I live on the edge 🙈
They're the "SSD" in front of my actual SSDs I seeeeeeeeeeeeeee | 21:40:39 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | In reply to @connorbaker:matrix.org
SomeoneSerge (UTC+3): they're basically (slow) non-volatile RAM. Intel initially tried to position it in the datacenter as a tier between fast disks and RAM but it kind of flopped :l
the 4k random read/write is still the best on the market though Yes, conceptually this is clear. Putting this into practice is what sounds non-trivial | 21:41:53 |
| aidalgol | I don't understand what happened here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/actions/runs/9230354336/job/25398415658 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/actions/runs/9230354050/job/25398414515#step:3:102 | 22:02:21 |
| 25 May 2024 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | In reply to @aidalgol:matrix.org
I don't understand what happened here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/actions/runs/9230354336/job/25398415658 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/actions/runs/9230354050/job/25398414515#step:3:102 Hmmm, maybe we merged the previous PR unformatted, and the action is confused about the list split into lines in the backport? | 08:19:07 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) |
Note this should not necessarily be treated as a hard fail, but a reviewer's attention should be drawn to it and github actions have no way of doing that but to raise a 'failure'
🤔 | 08:19:33 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | I've never encountered this | 08:19:36 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d091b7f681e8e5c21947e5de45b7f397a57011ae/maintainers/scripts/check-cherry-picks.sh#L52-L59
I still fail to understand what is it exactly that warrants inspection | 08:57:17 |
| SomeoneSerge (matrix works sometimes) | Oh mornings are hard | 08:57:29 |
| aidalgol | A comment for the conditional on line 52 would help a lot. | 09:15:25 |
| aidalgol | Header comment:
# Find alleged cherry-picks
But... why?
| 09:16:13 |
| aidalgol | What is the purpose of this check?? | 09:16:25 |
| 29 May 2024 |
| connor (he/him) | is it irritating to anyone else that nixpkgs-review uses allowBroken = true | 02:01:43 |
| connor (he/him) | Similar to OfBorg, that means we can't guard broken evaluations behind meta.broken | 02:04:58 |
| connor (he/him) | I only mention that because I just ran into evaluation errors which should be prevented by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/e8dbfc07e54c5b477e95dac72b8153e381b0f840 where I'm using a newer version of CUDA and the attribute set doesn't have a binary release for that version so the lookup fails. | 02:05:48 |
 Gaétan Lepage | I am not sure to get that connor (he/him) (UTC-5).
For me, nixpkgs-review is not attempting to build packages marked as broken. Is that what you meant ? | 05:55:45 |
