-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 19:53 +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: >> >>>> Make this distributed tool for tar zip bzip2 and gzip and I'm in, I >>>> don't think it would be useful with anything else than Gigabit Ethernet. >> One 2Ghz CPU can't even saturate a 100Mbit line with bzip2 as far as I >> can tell. >> Although the speedups won't be extreme it could just work. >> >> >>>> We might want to have in the make.conf 2 separate variables, one of them >>>> saying how many threads can be run on the machine, then How many >>>> threads/process across a cluster. >>>> >>>> For example, my Dual Xeon EM64T file server can do make -j4 locally, >>>> like in make install, make docs etc etc, But for compiling I can use >>>> -j20, really not useful over -j8 anyway. But the point is, it would be >>>> usefully to separate the load distribution on the local machine and >>>> cluster nodes. >>> As the discusison started... >>> >>> I would like to be able to limit the -jN when there is no distcc host >>> available or when compiling c++ code, otherwise my poor laptop is dead with >>> -j5 compiling pwlib when the network is down.... >> As far as I can tell distcc isn't smart enough for dynamic load balancing. >> One could hack portage to "test" each server in the distcc host list and >> remove missing servers for each run - doesn't look elegant to me. > > Yes, might be a solution, even if not elegant. I am thinking also of > automating distcc configuration (i.e. no need to run --set-hosts) and one > idea is to use DNS with some TXT record, but that is just an idea - no > patching is done yet.
Recipe for disaster, specially in a place like mine where sparc, alpha, x86_64 and ppc32/64 mix... not counting ia64 for a test run soon... If you really want to do this, someone has to make a rendezvous a la Apple. Where not only distcc says I am available but I am also doing the right stuff. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDx/nsP0/FkJ0eBc0RAn8aAJ9h8C1QFO0HyQmBINl2erPljgaEYwCfcOBF yPpDJ/KElWfotWqNvWYPq3s= =XM29 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
