On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
If you want to see older hardware really suck, try compiling glibc
with
-j5 on a system with limited RAM. (-j5 means it tries to compile 5
jobs
at once and was put there to take advantage of distcc, which shares
compiling load over a network).
I played with distcc when setting up my newest server a few months ago.
It's quite good but doesn't work for all packages (Apache and
Subversion didn't work for me because of the way they build). It's
great for compiling a kernel if you have a few machines available.
The host machine should be the most powerful one as it has to do all
of the preprocessing, which would probably be the limiting factor of
scalability.
[I actually thought -j was there to take advantage of SMP, but that
was more of a guess than anything.]
- Dave
