Thank you. I think we probably do want to detect the number of threads 
available: I'll see if I can work on that.

I'll plan to set up my own Azure self-hosted agent for doing more 
extensive testing for FreeBSD and Bhyve.


-- 
Rebecca Cran


On 3/21/20 10:41 AM, Sean via Groups.Io wrote:
> Rebecca - I think for any platform testing it would make more sense to 
> use self hosted agents.  They could even be your own VM. QEMU and 
> emulator might be the two where we could explore using the DevOps VMs 
> but I worry we will spend too much time downloading and install 
> dependencies since the VM is clean on each run.
>
> We can detect the number of threads available and call make with the 
> associated parameters.  That might help speed it up and would be safe 
> to use.
>
> The doc says they are DS2v2 instances which have the following.
>
> TABLE 2 Size 	vCPU 	Memory: GiB 	Temp storage (SSD) GiB 	Max data 
> disks 	Max cached and temp storage throughput: IOPS/MBps (cache size 
> in GiB) 	Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS/MBps 	Max NICs/Expected 
> network bandwidth (Mbps)
> 							
> Standard_DS2_v2 	2 	7 	14 	8 	8000/64 (86) 	6400/96 	2/1500
>
>