Re: [Libreoffice] Setting up a non-intrusive build cluster

Working on that... it looks simple, but the code isn't giving me what I
expected...
/me grumbles looking at unknown APIs...

Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:50:52AM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 16:15 -0500, Marc-André Laverdière wrote:
>
> > > I am convincing some powers-that-be that having a build farm would
> > > be good, and they are starting to listen. This would really help me
> > > write patches for LO, as my poor computer is having impossibly long
> > > compile cycles.
>
> > > There is a bunch of somewhat old Linux workstations that could
> > > contribute to it. The concern is mostly that it should be so that the
> > > systems should not accept jobs when users are logged in, as it may
> > > interfere with whatever work it is that they are doing.
>
> Maybe more interesting than "nobody logged on" would be "system load
> very low", e.g. "load <= 0.1*(number of cores)", possibly combined
> with "free memory + memory used for cache >= threshold".
>
> >       I'm sure they'd accept a patch to add a config option to use some
> > system heuristic before accepting a job. Of course, reliably detecting a
> > login session is prolly quite fun in itself ;-) ps ax | grep
> > gnome-session | kdeinit or something ?
>
> Nah:
>
>       #include <utmpx.h>
>
>       struct utmpx *getutxent(void);
>       struct utmpx *getutxid(const struct utmpx *);
>       struct utmpx *getutxline(const struct utmpx *);
>       struct utmpx *pututxline(const struct utmpx *);
>       void setutxent(void);
>       void endutxent(void);
>
> is the POSIX/SUS interface to do that. Or just run "/usr/bin/who -q"
> :)
>
> --
> Lionel