DistCC allows a person to take advantage of the horsepower of the computers around them by having them share the load of compiling software.
Personal example. I have a server that's an old Celeron 333, and compiling anything takes forever on it. Lets say 1 hour to compile apache (I'm making that number up). I also have 5 P4 desktops around the house, and generally, only 1 or 2 are in use at a time, and even then, utilization is usually around 5%. So I set up DistCC on all of them, and now, when I compile apache, rather than taking an hour, it takes 11 minutes, during which time all the machines run at about 90% utilization. That means I've drastically improved the perceived performance of this server without spending any money. It also means that I receive value from my P4s, even when there is nobody sitting at them and using them. Kev. On Thursday 27 January 2005 15:38, Joseph Szikora wrote: > Pardon my stupidity, but what is DistCC? > > I am just learning Linux (Mandrake 9.2). > > Thanks, > > Joseph. > > Using OS/2 Warp4. and WINXP if I have to. > =========================================================================== >== > > Kevin Anderson wrote: > >If I am presenting, Can someone please tell me what it will be on? I can > >present on one of these two topics. I won't presume that is the > > expectation, but it kinda sounded like it, so I'd like to be clear before > > going in... > > > >1) Gentoo install. > > > >2) DistCC demonstration. > > ========================================================= > E-Mail addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ========================================================= > This E-Mail has been scanned by NORTON Antivirus and it is free of viri. > ======================================================== > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
