On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:08:46 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> michael higgins wrote: > > I have a couple of questions about using distcc. I have two machines. One > > is significantly faster than the other, both x86 (pentium 2 and amd > > athlon-xp). > > First, a big thanks to all who replied. > > I've followed the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml instructions for > > configuring portage to use distcc. Should I need to continue with the > > instructions for "working with automake"? > > > > Portage does this automatically as long as you have the corresponding > FEATURES enabled. > This is what I was hoping to hear. > > Also, how do I tell the faster machine to just use it's own power and not > > attempt to use the slower one? > > > When you run distcc-config --set-hosts on the faster machine you want to > exclude the slower machine. > > > I tried so far, getting distccd running on both machines, each > > distcc-config --set-hosts has one IP entry, that of the other machine. Is > > this right? > > > > You may want to include localhost. Interesting... I wonder why? > > > I ran distcc-gnome and saw no activity reported on the faster machine when > > emerging something on the slower one. So, it would seem it's not working. > > > > Can anyone give me some hints? The manpage for distcc doesn't seem (to me) > > to be much related to the gentoo how-to... '-) > > > > TIA, > > > > #!/bin/bash > source /etc/make.globals > source /etc/make.conf > export DISTCC_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/portage/.distcc" > exec /usr/bin/distccmon-gnome > So, I just installed a package on the faster machine. It did try to use another, but found none and compiled locally, but spit out an error. Maybe adding localhost will fix this? I tried emerging the same package on the slower machine and running this script above. Nothing came up in it. However, I noticed that each time the compiler went to run something, there was network activity. 'top' on the faster machine showed distccd working and launching the compiler, afaict. So, I have to wonder if/why the monitors don't work for me... Next time I'll just set the debug level and log location to see what actually happened. Thanks again, foax. -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? | |ichael | |iggins \^ / michael[dot]higgins[at]snet[dot]net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
