In response to your other questions: "Why not simply use the hostname instead of localhost? I'd expect it to be more simple, and to work in all cases. Am I missing something?"
No, you're not missing anything. Using the hostname instead of localhost would be fine. It's just a matter of a formatting string, so I'm not particularly attached to one way of doing it. (paraphrasing) "What is the benefit of --localslots=<num> over the regular way?" The regular way doesn't allow the user to change the number of local compilations that will take place. By local, I mean fallback compilation, linking, and generally anything that distcc determines it cannot execute remotely. In our environment, allowing 4 simultaneous links uses too much memory. We are better off with just 3. Currently, there is no way to tune the n_slots for the hostlist defined in the global dcc_hostdef_local. This option allows it to be tuned. Michael __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc