On 20 Sep 2002, Gerhard Kutzelnigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > to make distcc distribute more than once to a single volunteer with many CPUs > I have put localhost1 localhost2 localhost3 localhost4 in the /etc/hosts as a > reference to localhost. In DISTCC_HOSTS I have the above hosts as remote > targets, although all on the same machine. > > Is there any other way to tell distcc to distribute jobs to volunteers which > have more than one CPU?
As you might know, distcc tries to spread load evenly across machines in the list. So if you run make -j6 with three machines, they will get roughly two jobs each. In most systems it is not too bad to run say twice as many compilers as you have CPUs, because they might block for IO sometimes. This falls down when you have, say, a quad processor machine and a single-processor machine. I plan to address this in a future release by allowing a limit on the number of concurrent jobs, or on the maximum load average. Something like distccd --nice 10 --max-proc 4 The client will then just keep feeding jobs out until each of the machines wants no more. At the moment the workaround you describe is probably best. First of all though, I would just try listing all the machines once -- does that really do badly? What configuration do you have? -- Martin _______________________________________________ distcc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.samba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/distcc
