Hello all. I'm Gonzalo Aguilar from Spain. I've tested this program with some computers of my house, and the results are impresing...
This is AzulNetwork Mobile system: P3 643BogoMips Coppermine 128MB ram Wireless 802.11g - 38Mb Azul1 system: AMD XP1800+ 3053BogoMips 256MB Ethernet 10/100 Working 100Mb Azul3 system: P3 Katmai 897BogoMips 386MB Ethernet 10/100 Working 100Mb And here are times... Kernel 2.6.0-test9 ------ Cut here ----- ... OBJCOPY arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin HOSTCC arch/i386/boot/tools/build BUILD arch/i386/boot/bzImage Root device is (3, 2) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 4879 bytes. System is 2102 kB Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST CC drivers/net/dummy.mod.o LD [M] drivers/net/dummy.ko CC drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-pcf.mod.o LD [M] drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-pcf.ko CC drivers/char/n_r3964.mod.o LD [M] drivers/char/n_r3964.ko real 47m14.148s user 44m37.285s sys 2m31.711s ------ Cut here ----- With distcc -> make -j14 I use 16 because of 3 (computers) x 4(slots) = 12 + 2 = 14 ------ Cut here ----- LD arch/i386/boot/compressed/piggy.o LD arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux OBJCOPY arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin BUILD arch/i386/boot/bzImage Root device is (3, 2) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 4879 bytes. System is 2101 kB Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready real 11m46.655s user 9m34.188s sys 2m7.391s ------ Cut here ----- Yeahhhhh!!!! 11 minutes 45s, this is a great improvement. I was thinking about cluster nodes OpenMosix, Beowulf and others. But I do not use heavy processes. Just some compilations and a few renders, not much... So I found in distcc a really great (and transparent) solution. Thank you guys... Bye __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc