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Philippe Trottier wrote: |
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> Lisa Seelye wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:18 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Lisa Seelye wrote: |
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>>>> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:51 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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>>>>> I've been cleaning up media-fonts/ to work with modular-X, and I see a |
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>>>>> lot of ebuilds with stuff like this: |
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>>>>> for font in *.bdf; do |
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>>>>> /usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf ${font} > `basename $font .bdf`.pcf |
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>>>>> done |
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>>>>> gzip *.pcf |
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>>>>> For having 100 files in *bdf, this is so serial it's painful. |
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>>>> And here I was hoping Distcc would get some usage. :( |
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>>> Distcc gets lots of usage with modular X. But for the fonts? :) |
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>> Time for distfont? ;) |
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> Make this distributed tool for tar zip bzip2 and gzip and I'm in, I |
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> don't think it would be useful with anything else than Gigabit Ethernet. |
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> We might want to have in the make.conf 2 separate variables, one of them |
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> saying how many threads can be run on the machine, then How many |
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> threads/process across a cluster. |
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> For example, my Dual Xeon EM64T file server can do make -j4 locally, |
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> like in make install, make docs etc etc, But for compiling I can use |
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> -j20, really not useful over -j8 anyway. But the point is, it would be |
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> usefully to separate the load distribution on the local machine and |
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> cluster nodes. |
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As the discusison started... |
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I would like to be able to limit the -jN when there is no distcc host |
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available or when compiling c++ code, otherwise my poor laptop is dead with |
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-j5 compiling pwlib when the network is down.... |
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It is particular example, but being able to limit portage in some way as |
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total CPU, total MEM might be interesting (just nice-ing is not enough) |
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Kalin. |
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