Hi all, Here's an update on the computers that we have for PyPy at the HHU. Snake is back, but nothing wrong was found with its hardware, which means that it'll probably continue to hang randomly from time to time... Maybe we'll reinstall the machine from scratch. For all I know it could be corrupted system files. However, there are now two other machines. Just like snake they are machines whose performances can be a bit strange - hyperthreaded Xeon cores. Each core has roughly snake-like performance, but each machine has got 4 cores. The software setup is: SuSE Linux base, which I'm hiding as much as possible behind a Gentoo Linux installation in the /gentoo directory. When you log in, you reach a chrooted environment, so you should not see that at all unless you dig in special files. I've copied some accounts from codespeak, so you must use the same public key to log in (no password logins). Just ask me if you want to use the machines but I forgot to copy your account over. To login, you must use port 922 instead of 22. The latter would reach the SSH daemon of the outer SuSE installation (where you don't have an account). I recommend adding the following lines to your file ~/.ssh/config: Host wyvern HostName wyvern.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de Port 922 Host cobra HostName cobra.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de Port 922 Then you can log in with 'ssh wyvern' or 'ssh cobra'. Note that 'wyvern' is the fastest machine so feel free to prefer it. A great way to use them is for distributed testing. Put in your file ~/conftest.py: disthosts = ['wyvern'] * 4 + ['cobra'] * 4 Then you can do 'py.test --session=R'. Try also the --runbrowser option. A bientot, Armin