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On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:23 +0200, Philippe Trottier wrote: |
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> Make this distributed tool for tar zip bzip2 and gzip and I'm in, I don't think |
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> it would be useful with anything else than Gigabit Ethernet. |
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app-arch/pbzip2 |
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It covers only bzip2, but proves that it can be done. I tend to like it |
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for catalyst, since it helps a lot on SMP machines. |
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> We might want to have in the make.conf 2 separate variables, one of them saying |
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> how many threads can be run on the machine, then How many threads/process across |
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> a cluster. |
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> For example, my Dual Xeon EM64T file server can do make -j4 locally, like in |
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> make install, make docs etc etc, But for compiling I can use -j20, really not |
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> useful over -j8 anyway. But the point is, it would be usefully to separate the |
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> load distribution on the local machine and cluster nodes. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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