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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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If you do find a reliable way of getting DISTCC working with EC2 I for |
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one would love to see a quick write-up! |
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Oh, and likewise it sounds like Glentoo is becoming fairly usable, so |
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any quick howtos for those of us who have always wanted to tinker with |
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it would be wonderful. I wouldn't worry about full documentation |
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until you're ready, but feel free to just toss up an illustrative |
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script to start from (download this, boot it, type this, etc). |
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Rich |