hi, I discovered, through much pain and agony, that the distcc monitors check the time stamp of the state files before using them. this is a good idea, until your systems start having time sync issues. in my case, my home directory was on a box which was 2 minutes behind my development box. this meant that all of my state files seemed to be two minutes old. the distcc monitors, then, ignored those state files. this was very frustrating because the distcc monitors showed no state despite the fact that the state files where there and accessible. i would suggest some sort of feature addition to the monitors such that if the monitors continually detect state files that seem "out of date", that they suggest to the user that there may be time sync issues (similar to other build tools which may suggest "time skew detected" or similar).
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