hi i was wondering if you can answer some of those questions for me :
i installed distcc on my home network (4 machines). as for now, i am compiling most of the things on my workstation, and running distccd on another server to test performance. 1) i noticed that when you start a make proccess, the remote distccd recieves 10-15 connections from my host (which is good) and those proccesses die after a while. this is a long compilation (kdelibs) and after the initial proccesses die, i cannot see any new one's coming in. is this normal ? it seems as if after a while (2-3 minuets) distcc stops working and only my local gcc is still compiling. 2) another machine i want to add to this "cluster" is my firewall. its not a very powerfull one, but it can help speed things up a little more ;) are there any knows security issues with distcc ? how stupid will it be to run it on a server that acts as a firewall ? 3) in my machine, i've added to my .bashrc : export CC=/usr/local/bin/distcc export cc=/usr/local/bin/distcc export DISTCC_HOSTS='192.168.0.2 localhost' if i want to add another host to DISTCC_HOSTS, what will be the manner that distcc will access the remote servers ? if the entry will be : export DISTCC_HOSTS='192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 localhost', then it will try to distribute the jobs in that order, or is there any other method it uses ? also, is this the only way to set prioroty ? 4)when starting a compilation, the howto says to use -j8 . is this optimal ? anything else i should be using for better performance ? all the machines run debian linux, gcc 2.9.5 . (btw - are there any issues about upgrading to 3.2 ?) thanks, tal. _______________________________________________ distcc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.samba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/distcc
