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Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: |
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> Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 19:53 +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: |
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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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>> One 2Ghz CPU can't even saturate a 100Mbit line with bzip2 as far as I |
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>> can tell. |
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>> Although the speedups won't be extreme it could just work. |
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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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>> As far as I can tell distcc isn't smart enough for dynamic load balancing. |
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>> One could hack portage to "test" each server in the distcc host list and |
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>> remove missing servers for each run - doesn't look elegant to me. |
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> Yes, might be a solution, even if not elegant. I am thinking also of |
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> automating distcc configuration (i.e. no need to run --set-hosts) and one |
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> idea is to use DNS with some TXT record, but that is just an idea - no |
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> patching is done yet. |
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Recipe for disaster, specially in a place like mine where sparc, alpha, x86_64 |
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and ppc32/64 mix... not counting ia64 for a test run soon... |
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If you really want to do this, someone has to make a rendezvous a la Apple. |
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Where not only distcc says I am available but I am also doing the right stuff. |
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