On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:56:29 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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.
I've found there's just too much overhead with distcc, plus much of the work is still done locally. I have a couple of Atom boxes, a server and a netbook, and I've set up a chroot for each on my workstation. In the chroot I have FEATURES=buildpkg, using an NFS mounted PKGDIR available to both computers, then I emerge -k on the Atom box. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 1: Microsoft Works
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