[Nix-dev] Shutting down prs.nix.gsc.io

[Graham Christensen]

lewo at abesis.fr writes:

> I wonder how many resources you have used.
>
> 600GB of storage and 3TB of upload for 2weeks. Is it right?
> And how many vcpus, and rams did you use/need?
>
> Antoine.

The build servers were sponsored by Packet.net, so we didn't pay for it.
However, here is what it would have cost:

 RAM  | Cores | Type   | Count | Price    | Hourly Cost | T.RAM | T.Cores
=========================================================================
  8GB | 4     | Type 0 |    14 | $0.05/hr | $0.70/hr    | 112GB | 56
 32GB | 4     | Type 1 |    16 | $0.40/hr | $6.40/hr    | 512GB | 64
256GB | 24    | Type 2 |     1 | $1.25/hr | $1.25/hr    | 256GB | 24
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            31              $8.35/hr    | 880GB | 144

Note these cores are all _physical_ cores. The Type1 and Type2 have
HyperThreading, so we get:

   4 * 14 * 1 =   56 (4 cores over 14 machines without hyperthreading)
+  4 * 16 * 2 =  128 (4 cores over 16 machines with hyperthreading)
+ 24 *  1 * 2 =   48 (24 cores over 1 machine with hyperthreading)
--------------------------
              =  232 cores

BTW they have EXTREMELY nice machines available for an hourly price. I
highly recommend using them for future projects. They are also part of
the Spotinst.com project, where you can rent their dedicated servers
hourly at a spot bid, similar to AWS spot instances.

The Type2 has been migrated over to hydra.nixos.org already.

Best,
Graham