On Friday 17 December 2010 22:56:29 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've bought (against my better judgement) an Atom N270 box to be a LAN > server, but it's a bit slow compared with the other boxes on the > network. A big bit, actually - 69 minutes to compile a kernel compared > with less than 9 minutes on this workstation. > > I thought I'd give distcc a go, but after reading the Gentoo distcc and > crossdev guides and doing what they say I get no result. I might just as > well not have made the effort. The Atom box just labours with the emerge > without trying to send anything to the server box I've set up for the > purpose. > > Are the Gentoo guides up to date? Hi I have a N270 netbook and use crossdev and distcc. It is definately usefull but for doing a kernel compile I havn't tried it. Do you see any improvement when using for emerges. Whats your setup like
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