On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Daniel Kegel wrote: > Martin Eisenhardt wrote: > >>Sound reasonable to me. How many hosts are in your cluster? > >>And are they all roughly the same performance? > > > > There are as many as 25 [EMAIL PROTECTED], one 2-way server with [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and a > > couple of desktop systems across the department. > > OK, so it sounds like the randomization won't hurt you too much > (your systems all seem fairly similar, and you can still add the 2-way > twice).
I have already done this, but there are other reasons for host list randomization. Suppose that more than one person is using the compile farm, and that all users have the same hosts file. If the number of distccds is higher than the number of parallizable (?) tasks in a build (say N), them the first N machines get hit very often while the others are seldomly used. Host list randomization would fix that problem. > > > All systems are running > > Gentoo, the computers in the lab are Windows-infected (that's why they > > aren't always availale, grrrrr). > > Why not run distcc under Cygwin? If you're targeting Linux, and using > crosstool-generated compilers, you can mix cygwin, linux, and macosx boxes > in your compile cluster... I thought about that, but the thing is that the computer labs are used by students during the day. Most of them prefer Windows (alas!), so your suggestion about using Cygwin could just work. On the other hand, I do my big compiles (KDE and the like) during the night-time, when the computer labs are used for scientific calculations (under Gentoo). For my daytime work, it is sufficient if the 2-way server and several other machines across the lab are available. > > > > German influences? (Mfg = Mit freundlichen Gruessen?) > > I say that to all the @.de's :-) And yes, I'm under the influence of German, > I just subscribed to http://german.tv so I can tune my ear better > to german pronunciation. > Great to hear that! Have fun with one of the easiest languages to learn ;-) > - Dan > But back to the initial question: will these patches be merged into the main path of development? It would be really a great step forward. May I directly ask the maintainer of the package what he thinks about the two patches? Thanks and best regards! Martin -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Wirtsch. Inf. Martin Eisenhardt Universität Bayreuth Fakultät Mathematik und Physik Fachbereich Informatik Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Informatik I D-95440 Bayreuth fon : +49 (921) 55 3314 fax : +49 (921) 55 5820 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www : http://ai1.inf.uni-bayreuth.de www2 : http://www.mneisen.org Please note: this eMail was composed entirely of recycled bits. No byte was harmed during the creation of this message. Please dispose of carefully! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc