The dashboard lane, 7 October 2026 10:39Z: both slots of build-1 flock-held and EMPTY while two suites ran. Cause: a run from a worktree without last night's append-mode fix opens a busy sibling's slot file with > on every probe. The holder now keeps its own line: a keeper re-writes it within BR_KEEP_S (20 s) whenever the file is empty, until release; remote-run.sh --self-test-keeper (in the gate) truncates a held line and sees it return, and sees nothing written after release; live on build-1 at 11:19Z (the line came back in 25 s). The first version deadlocked the runner's bare wait with the keeper (build-2's first run hung 15 min after its test passed): the keeper stops before the wait. The two running suites' -j 90 came from explicit --jobs 90: a bounded class now clamps it to its cap with a log line (pass --priority gate for the full set). run-from-mac.sh --box N: the host file was suffixed twice (build-server-2-2) and every box's mirror would have shared one remote name; one remote per box (build-N). build-2's first green run: a suite at nice 10 on 32 cores, jobs 32, 986 s cold. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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| hands | ||
| night | ||
| prover | ||
| repro | ||
| runner | ||
| workers | ||
| lib.sh | ||
| provision.sh | ||
| README.md | ||
| remote-run.sh | ||
| run-from-mac.sh | ||
The build boxes (infra/build-server)
Three Hetzner dedicated servers in Falkenstein run everything the Mac must not: builds, test suites, benchmarks, CPU proving, the devnet hands and the observer. The Mac keeps macOS binaries, the DMG and Metal tests (CLAUDE.md, "Running agents on this Mac").
No mining on any Hetzner box, ever
the project lead's rule through main, 7 October 2026: Hetzner's policies forbid crypto mining. The boxes run nodes, builds, tests, benchmarks and
CPU proving only. The pool's fast-time network runs its miners on rented GPU pods (tools/fleet), never on a box; a box may run the
network's nodes. The capacity layer refuses a job that would start igneum-miner mine or a GPU worker (capacity/run.sh), and no
hands unit carries a miner. A node started with --enable-unsynced-mining is a node flag, not a miner; nothing feeds it blocks here.
The boxes and the kind map
| Box | Host file on the Mac | Takes | Never |
|---|---|---|---|
| igneum-build-1 (188.40.146.49, AX162-1-LTD) | ~/.config/igneum/build-server |
release gates (--priority gate), builds and cross-builds, checks, the GPU workers' host side, the devnet hands (node 1, the observer node, the observer), the Devnet 2 seed, the CI runner, the dashboard feed |
suites and benches once box 2 exists |
| igneum-build-2 (AX162-1, on order) | ~/.config/igneum/build-server-2 |
suites (cargo test), benches (cargo bench), the attack rows (--box 2) |
gates, hands |
| igneum-build-3 (AX102-1, on order) | ~/.config/igneum/build-server-3 |
proving and aggregation CPU work (proving/igneum-prove builds and suites), the second prover's shadow runner, the pool's fast-time NETWORK (nodes only, --box 3) |
miners of any kind |
tools/build-remote.sh routes by class (lib.sh bs_route): suite and bench to box 2, the proving crate to box 3, everything else
to box 1; --box N overrides; a class whose box has no host file yet falls back to box 1 and says so. --priority gate always runs
on box 1. Each box has its own mirrors, slots, locks and JSONL log under /srv; run-from-mac.sh --box N <ip> provisions a box and
writes its host file; the dashboard collector reads every box it is told about.
Files
| File | What |
|---|---|
provision.sh |
the box itself: install mode (rescue system, Ubuntu 24.04, RAID 1, no swap) and provision mode (user build, toolchains, the pin, sccache, zig, CUDA headers, docker, Caddy, mirrors, slots, sshd, ufw) |
run-from-mac.sh |
ships provision.sh, writes the host file, wires the build remotes and pushes every branch |
lib.sh, remote-run.sh |
the Mac and box halves of a remote run: sync, checkout, slots, scheduling classes, the JSONL line |
hands/ |
the devnet hands' units, the mover and the restart read-backs |
capacity/ |
the capacity layer (the box-work lane's): background jobs under the build slots, never a miner |
repro/, night/, prover/, runner/, workers/ |
other lanes' pieces that live on the boxes |
Plan, numbers and the gotchas: docs/plans/build-server.md; the hands: docs/plans/hands-on-build-1.md.