I wanted to share with others on the list something that I recently discovered with distccmon-gui. I found that when I travel to work and to home with my laptop, sometimes the distccmon-gui would be covered with red specks when processing jobs on remote hosts. I saw that they were always associated with the "connecting" phase but I could never figure out what the problem was because the job would eventually compile there. It turns out that the connecting phase is usually slowed down by the name resolution of the host, so if one of the entries in my distcc/hosts file just had a short name, instead of the FQDN for the host, it would show up red during connect as it tried to resolve the hostname.
I don't know how many other folks might run into this, because, like I say, I really only noticed it on my laptop which sometimes gets the correct domain name (at home!) but not at other times, for a given host. Once you fix those, the distcc works great. HTH somebody else. Bill -- Bill Longman Εν αρχη ην ὁ λογος
