On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:23:07PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > What happens when localhost's real name is listed in the alias? That > would cause us to send jobs over the loopback interface, which is a > bit inefficient.
That's more or less exactly what happens: connections to <IP of local machine's eth0 interface>:distcc. Fixing this gets complicated, especially if you consider stuff like IP aliases, dummy interfaces, and IP-takeover systems. Modern loopback "hardware" runs at some huge number of gigabits, so in practice the extra overhead is buried firmly in the noise. There could be theoretically twice the number of jobs scheduled on the local machine, if both "localhost" and "some.name.that.may.resolve.to.a.loopback.ip.address" are listed in DISTCC_HOSTS; however, that could already happen if two people are running distcc jobs with the same DISTCC_HOSTS list on the same network, whether aliases are used or not. -- Zygo Blaxell (Laptop) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG = D13D 6651 F446 9787 600B AD1E CCF3 6F93 2823 44AD
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