[Nix-dev] Travis false-positives

[Wout Mertens]

How about putting a caching proxy like Squid in front so the nars are
cached?

I'd be happy to set it up for you if you don't have time...

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, 09:56 Rob Vermaas <rob.vermaas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>> Isn't travis a special case for the dynamic cache? It only runs 2 jobs at
>> most and only when a PR comes in or a commit is done. Basically it's an
>> extension of Hydra except that it builds PRs and doesn't save build
>> products...
>> Seems to me that it is fine for it to use the dynamic binary cache...
>>
>
> Indeed. The amount of pulls from hydra.nixos.org from Travis is pretty
> limited, so it is ok to use for this. We just don't want a large group of
> people using it continuously, as the binary cache of hydra.nixos.org only
> generates nars on-the-fly, and it has no caching of these nars, so they put
> a significant load on the main Hydra machine, which is already under heavy
> CPU and IO pressure.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
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