Am Tuesday 31 August 2010 12:03:15 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > is there a good guide how to set up distcc to build to help building arm > > packages on my x86_64 and i486 hosts? > > Yep. Go back to the FTP site and download the script "dbuild" - I just > put it there.
Thanks, I'll have a look there today evening when I'm home. > > PS: Could the 128 MB RAM on my Dockstar be a problem, even if I use > > distcc? > > Depends what you're compiling, but quite possibly, yes. > For example - compiling ruby on 256MB RAM took days because it was > constantly in swap; and building KDE is pretty much a no go. Did you use distcc there, too? What about moving all jobs to the other hosts? I know there are still tasks left for the build host (linking?), but no idea how much RAM they need. But I've already thought that RAM will be a problem. Perhaps there may be some tricks that can help, e.g. http://hostingfu.com/article/compiling-with-gcc-on-low-memory-vps > In my opinion, for a build host, the best bet at the moment is a > SheevaPlug or one of the *Plug family -- preferably with an eSATA disc > attached. Yes, I wanted to buy a SheevaPlug, but my prefered model seemed to be out of stock at the moment. Furthermore the Dockstar was so pretty cheap (20 €), that I just wanted to give it a try. And it looks fine in my living room with the 2.5" disk attached ;-) hdparm gives me a speed of 26 MB/s which is quite OK for an USB drive. _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list [email protected] http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
