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Roman Gaufman wrote: |
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> Personally, I find binary packages on gentoo perfect for my use. I |
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> have several computers on the network, all running gentoo with no gcc |
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> or any header files. I then have an offline machine that gets |
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> everything compiled and put on a shared /usr/portage for all the |
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> machines to just emerge -k simultaneously. |
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> That way when I emerge something, I can review the config files, add |
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> some custom options and some fancy polish and quickpkg will bundle |
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> everything together all pre-configured. |
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You're a very patient person, or your offline machine is at least |
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a 4 3Ghz Xeon with 4 GB RAM, or you never compiled something like |
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X and/or OpenOffice and some other nice little things ;-) . |
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It is that what you're describing is a lucky, but I fear uncommon, |
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situation: you can afford a plus machine and you don't have different |
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machines and machines types to compile for. I think that a common |
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situation, with different machines and machine types and production |
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machines, require a big overhead either in CPU load, either to schedule, |
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monitor and manage the compilations for not suffering for such CPU load |
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increase. |
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I made what you're describing, but also in my case, with the same |
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machines and machine types and the CPU load increase was not a concern. |
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I think that in most cases, with a smart monitoring, scheduling and |
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managing and with ccache and distcc you can get the target also in more |
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common situations without performance degradation in the business |
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services offered by the machines, but there are concerns either for |
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security (gcc installed everywhere to have distcc working) and the work |
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for managing monitoring, scheduling and control the CPU load and network |
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traffic increase. |
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Sorry for the beastly English, but I can write a worst French and also a |
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very bad Italian ;-) |
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Andrea |
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