On 9/6/10, Michael Tomkins <[email protected]> wrote: > <DistCC cluster> The following had been setup as a distcc cluster but > got nowhere with increasingly patched kernels and out of date distros.
I got a distcc setup using a crosscompiler on a powermac, that gave a 3-4 X speedup. Since it used only about 20% of cpu on a g3-250mhz I would assume that just about any powermac would do... (the porters on the list thought that the bottleneck there was the cpreprocesor but I thought it was networking related, maybe it was both). just to let you know in case you feel like trying again, it was pretty easy to get there even though I didn't use it much. however I thought it might be interesting to try with such a setup building '040 optimized versions of some software to see how much speedup there, since the binary packages only use the basic '020 features... just a thought. without distcc it took about 40hours to compile emacs on 33mhz'040. I guess if I were to build anything '040 optimized the first thing would be the compiler ... Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
