#nixos-aarch64 on 2019-06-23

2018-09-23 16:56 gchristensen changed the topic of #nixos-aarch64 to: Get access to the NixOS Community aarch64 build box: https://github.com/nix-community/aarch64-build-box ... todo: https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk#tabs-jobs build box status: https://monitoring.nix.ci/d/hkRCcV0mk/instance-metrics?var-instance=aarch64.nixos.community&orgId=1

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01:18 <Ashy> it's worth mentioning packet.net also does spot pricing that is much cheaper

01:20 <Ashy> I really like packet.net, it's amazing spinning up a dedi just like it's a vm

01:20 <Ashy> you can ssh in to the console and watch the provision and boot process

01:21 <Ashy> takes about 3 mins to provision a new machine

01:21 <Ashy> but yeah they aren't the cheapest if you just pay the retail rate

01:22 <Ashy> despite the above I'm not affiliated with them haha

02:43 <thefloweringash> If you want to rent a smaller arm, amazon has a range of virtual machine sizes.

02:58 <Ashy> yeah but packet is all dedicated machines, not vms

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02:58 <Ashy> aws does dedis too but for a lot more money

05:21 <DigitalKiwi> what's spot pricing mean

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07:17 <Ashy> basically auction pricing per hour

07:18 <Ashy> if someone outbids you your instance is immediately killed and goes to the higher bidder

07:18 <Ashy> in return the auction price is usually much lower than the on-demand price

07:19 <Ashy> good for worker instances that don't need to be 24x7

07:20 <Ashy> https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/

07:45 <sphalerite> Scaleway also has virtual ARM instances, and dedicated (kinda crappy though) 32-bit ARM machines

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22:01 <Thra11> I've been following the instructions using holey here: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/Allwinner_GPT_Installation. If I run `holey check` after dd-ing u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin into place, it says "ERROR: Media size (660672) is not a multiple of sector size(512) Holey GPT looks broken?" Is this to be expected?

22:04 <Thra11> 660672 might be the size of the u-boot binary (du -b reports it as 652480)

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