Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-13 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:55:27 +0100, lee wrote: > >> > Firstly, things like Flash and Skype are not special cases, they are >> > widely used and many of us have to use them, whether we like it or >> > not. >> >> They are special cases. Flash never really worked, and whe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:55:27 +0100, lee wrote: > > Firstly, things like Flash and Skype are not special cases, they are > > widely used and many of us have to use them, whether we like it or > > not. > > They are special cases. Flash never really worked, and when it does, > it's pretty much un

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-12 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 08:25:05 +0100, lee wrote: > > [...] >> >> That there are a few special cases for which some people still need it >> doesn't mean that everyone should be forced to use a multilib profile >> when 100% of the software they're running is 64bit. > > First

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 08:25:05 +0100, lee wrote: > >> > What about things like flash plugins? Those are often wanted on > >> > desktops and need multilib. > >> > >> Flash sucks, and fortunately, it's dead. > > > > It should be, but it's not. There are still many sites that require > > it. >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-10 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 21:37:55 +0100, lee wrote: > >> > What about things like flash plugins? Those are often wanted on >> > desktops and need multilib. >> >> Flash sucks, and fortunately, it's dead. > > It should be, but it's not. There are still many sites that require

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 21:37:55 +0100, lee wrote: > > What about things like flash plugins? Those are often wanted on > > desktops and need multilib. > > Flash sucks, and fortunately, it's dead. It should be, but it's not. There are still many sites that require it. > 64bit should be the defaul

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-08 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:41:25 +0100, lee wrote: > >> > Try Neil's suggestion of using a chroot and NFS exporting. I use it >> > here to good effect. >> >> I must be missing his posting? > > It's in the "QEMU/distcc combination question" thread, among other places. Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:41:25 +0100, lee wrote: > > Try Neil's suggestion of using a chroot and NFS exporting. I use it > > here to good effect. > > I must be missing his posting? It's in the "QEMU/distcc combination question" thread, among other places. > Of course, I installed the client no-

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-05 Thread lee
Jeremi Piotrowski writes: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:49 PM, lee wrote: >> The gui monitor doesn't seem to exist. > > Recompile distcc with the gtk use flag. Oh, I thought that was an extra package ...

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-05 Thread lee
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Tuesday 05 January 2016 14:18:12 lee wrote: > >> Is there a way to offload the preprocessing to the server, and can >> compiling on localhost be avoided as much as possible somehow? > > Try Neil's suggestion of using a chroot and NFS exporting. I use it here to > good

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 05 January 2016 14:18:12 lee wrote: > Is there a way to offload the preprocessing to the server, and can > compiling on localhost be avoided as much as possible somehow? Try Neil's suggestion of using a chroot and NFS exporting. I use it here to good effect. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-05 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:49 PM, lee wrote: > The gui monitor doesn't seem to exist. Recompile distcc with the gtk use flag.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-05 Thread lee
writes: > wrote: > >> >> I used a pentium 4 laptop as client and two phenom2 quadcore pc as >> server. I don't remember the settings that I used but I think it >> was something about -j10 or so. > > Sorry, I think it was about -j16 (twice the totally amount of CPUs). The wiki says to use twic

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-05 Thread lee
writes: > lee wrote: > >> writes: >> >> > lee wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is >> >> used? > [...] >> Can it be that the client is simply too slow compared to the server to >> give it any significant load? (The client isn't exa

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-05 Thread lee
writes: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:48:42PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> > P.S.: distccmon is a good tool to watch the compilation processes. >> >> I never got it to display anything. I just tried it again: synced >> portage and ran a world update -- 1

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-05 Thread lee
Frank Steinmetzger writes: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:48:42PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > >> P.S.: distccmon is a good tool to watch the compilation processes. > > I never got it to display anything. I just tried it again: synced portage > and ran a world update -- 16 Packages, among the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-05 Thread lee
Frank Steinmetzger writes: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:38:56PM -0600, Dale wrote: > >> >>> what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? >> >>> […] >> >>> Some compilations are being run on the remote machine, so distcc does >> >>> work. The log file on the remote machine

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread wabenbau
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:48:42PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > P.S.: distccmon is a good tool to watch the compilation processes. > > I never got it to display anything. I just tried it again: synced > portage and ran a world update -- 16 Packages, among t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread wabenbau
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:48:42PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > P.S.: distccmon is a good tool to watch the compilation processes. > > I never got it to display anything. I just tried it again: synced > portage and ran a world update -- 16 Packages, among t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:48:42PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > P.S.: distccmon is a good tool to watch the compilation processes. I never got it to display anything. I just tried it again: synced portage and ran a world update -- 16 Packages, among them kdevplatform, a lengthy Qt package (

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread wabenbau
wrote: > > I used a pentium 4 laptop as client and two phenom2 quadcore pc as > server. I don't remember the settings that I used but I think it > was something about -j10 or so. Sorry, I think it was about -j16 (twice the totally amount of CPUs). -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread wabenbau
lee wrote: > writes: > > > lee wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is > >> used? > >> > >> I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one > >> emerge is running on) through distcc settings because the local > >> machin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:38:56PM -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? > >>> […] > >>> Some compilations are being run on the remote machine, so distcc does > >>> work. The log file on the remote machine shows compilation times of a > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread Dale
lee wrote: > writes: > >> lee wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? >>> >>> I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one >>> emerge is running on) through distcc settings because the local >>> machine is relatively slo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread lee
writes: > lee wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? >> >> I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one >> emerge is running on) through distcc settings because the local >> machine is relatively slow. Yet I can see som

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread wabenbau
lee wrote: > Hi, > > what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? > > I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one > emerge is running on) through distcc settings because the local > machine is relatively slow. Yet I can see some gcc processes runn

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread wabenbau
lee wrote: > Hi, > > what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? > > I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one > emerge is running on) through distcc settings because the local > machine is relatively slow. Yet I can see some gcc processes runn

[gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

2016-01-04 Thread lee
Hi, what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one emerge is running on) through distcc settings because the local machine is relatively slow. Yet I can see some gcc processes running on the local machine, a