On 1 Dec 2003, Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First off, thanks for the advice the other day from a few people on a > gentoo issue I was having. I got two machines compiling together today, > and gcc being compiled on another two. I am also looking suspiciously > at my iMac and my xBox. Hmmmm, but thats another tale. > > I was not able to find this on the site or STFW... Can I add nodes on > the fly to the distcc thats running? > > I am using emerge with Gentoo. I did try it, and it appeared that when > I did the --set-hosts " ", it only took the first one listed if it was > already running. Not positive, some things won't compile in parallel on > gentoo... I had the text viewer running and I did not see anything > being sent out.
I don't know what the gentoo tool does. If you edit ~/.distcc/hosts it will see them. > Next question, I know from last time that a node can drop off and the > cluster is okay. What if the node comes up again? Is it detected? Yes. It may take a minute for it to be noticed. > Part of this would be dependent on emerge too I take it... If it > restarts the distcc between each package being built? No, there is no long-running client process. The distcc is started by make for each single file that's compiled. > Thanks - this is a fantastic tool! Thanks. Feel free to throw money http://us2.samba.org/samba/donations.html -- Martin linux.conf.au -- Adelaide, January 2004 __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc