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I have 6 and ended up needing to use my gaming PC for a build server. I think you could get by with 1 computer, but it’ll have to have a pretty decent machine.
by srcreigh 11d ago
I have 6 and ended up needing to use my gaming PC for a build server.
I think you could get by with 1 computer, but it’ll have to have a pretty decent machine.
Between agents running tests, CI, docker image builds, an average $400 mini PC won’t cut it.
Don’t forget also many older mini PCs don’t support KVM. Some newer ones don’t support AVX/ mongodb.
It’s not so easy to buy any old hardware sadly.
- dmix 11d agoYou might be right, it likely needs a full proper PC setup with the test suite stuff. I was looking at this vendor, https://www.gmktec.com/collections/all https://www.gmktec.com/collections/all there's this whole AI mini-pc market but they aren't quite a full dev machine replacement
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- petesergeant 11d agoI’m running ~5 agents at a time very comfortably on a $280 mini PC with 8GB. They’re all in Docker containers, a couple have sidecar VMs they can own and run. Not having any issue with load.
- justincormack 11d agoDepends a lot on your workload. I build large Rust projects so really only one can build and test at a time.