On 15 Feb 2005, Brian Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using two AMD64 Gentoo based PCs, a server with dual 1.8G Opterons > and a client/workstation with a 2.0G S754 A64. The server has GBe, and > so does the client, but I've recently discovered that the r8169 driver > gives me NFS timeouts on high traffic (large NFS transfers), so I've > dropped back to using a Intel PCI 100MB card (e100). > > My question is, given the above relatively fast hardware, is it worth it > to enable lzo compression? I believe the A64 chips will compress very > quickly. I am just looking to minimize the compilation slowdown caused > by going from a GB connection for distcc to 100MB. > > My current config, with MAKEOPTS=-j6 in /etc/make.conf: > > # distcc-config --get-hosts > zippy/4 localhost/2 > > Proposed config, if it is likely to be faster: > zippy/4,lzo localhost/2
It's probably pretty close; using compression might be faster. Could you please time a kernel build with each setup and let us know? -- Martin __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc
