[gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

[lee]

Hi,

what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used?

I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one
emerge is running on) through distcc settings because the local machine
is relatively slow.  Yet I can see some gcc processes running on the
local machine, and emerging goes painfully slow.  Using distcc doesn't
seem to make it any faster, though disabling local compiling seems to
help a bit.

Some compilations are being run on the remote machine, so distcc does
work.  The log file on the remote machine shows compilation times of a
few milliseconds up to about 1.5 seconds at most.  The distcc server
would be finished with the emerging within maybe 15 minutes, and the
client takes several hours already.

Is there something going wrong?  Is there a way to speed things up as
much as I would expect from using distcc?