Re: [gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

[Roger Mason]

Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com> writes:

> i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are
> configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started
> emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2
> remote machine is compiling, while the other one is idle. if i change
> the address order in the /etc/distcc/hosts file, the idle started to
> work, and the previous working one becomes idle.
>
> how can i make all of them work?

Try emerging app-misc/mc as a test just in case the package you are
using explicitly disables distcc, as Alex Schuster pointed out.  It is
small and I have always found that it compiles fine with distcc.

Just passing on a tip I saw in this forum.

Good luck,
Roger