Re: sun blade 1000 donation

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Andy,
>
>> Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower,
>> yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is
>> limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may not
>> be out of the ordinary). I think my kill-a-watt said, at idle, it was
>> near 300W. (Though it's been a while, I may not be remembering that
>> correctly, and I don't recall looking at it under load)
>
> Ok, that's not as bad as the spec sheet online looked. The machine is
> still too slow/old for benchmarking though, and we couldn't rack it (our
> donated rack space is limited). Does someone have a home for this
> machine? And would we use it for buildfarm, or for something else?
>

I'll plug it in tonight when I get home and verify those numbers.

It looks like there are a bunch of sparc build farm members, would
another really be helpful?

-Andy