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On 10:25 Fri 15 Jul , Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Robert Seaton <seatonr@××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday, I spent some time trying to get distcc working on an |
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> > Amazon EC2 high-compute instance to speed up generation of the process |
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> > of building a liveCD image, seeing as it takes quite some time to |
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> > generate a fresh image on my aging core2duo. I still haven't managed |
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> > to get that working, but it's something I plan to continue to look |
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> > into during the upcoming week. |
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> Out of curiosity - did you ever get this working in any practical way? |
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> I've found that DistCC to a remote server from a slower host hasn't |
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> worked all that well. In order to make up for network latency you |
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> need to run VERY parallel builds (-j15/etc), and the problem is that |
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> there is no way to tell make to do that just for files that use gcc. |
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> The result is that as soon as you hit a package that uses quite a bit |
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> of java/python/bash/etc you end up running at -j15 on your local |
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> system and it just kills you - especially java. |
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There's a nice option -l (load average) that blocks new jobs from |
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starting if the load is too high. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Admin, Summer of Code |
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Gentoo Linux and X.Org |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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