On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 17/12/2010, at 10:56pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> ... an Atom N270 box ... 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. > > 9 minutes!?!? I'm flabbergasted. The machines I have around here, I consider > 1 hour to > compile a kernel pretty good. Actually I'm in the process of migrating to > newer hardware, > but I haven't tested kernel compilation times.
[brag] real 1m46.250s user 11m54.140s sys 0m57.290s [/brag] Less than 2 minutes here ;) That is for "make -j9 all" on Core i7 920 (OC'ed to 3.5GHz) To be more on topic, I've never been able to figure out distcc to the point where I feel comfortable that I've done it correctly. I have a laptop where emerging a new release of KDE takes more than 1 day, and the above mentioned workstation where it takes an hour. Followed the wiki and I could see compilation happening on the remote machine, but it was few and far between. It usually seemed like using it was slower than not using it at all. I tried to set it to just not use the local machine for anything but was never able to get that to work. (I'm not sure if it's even possible?) I probably did something wrong or misunderstood some fundamental part of it, but I gave up on it long ago.
