On 20 Jul 2003, Dara Hazeghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 19 Jul 2003, Dara Hazeghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to do some measurements of current distcc > > > performance with and without lzo compression. > > > Unfortunately I haven't been able to find what > > > flag/option does this. Any hints? Thanks, > > > > DISTCC_HOSTS='localhost otherhost,lzo' > > > > Mentioned in NEWS, and will be in the manual. > > Ah, thanks. Guess I should look harder next time. > > I did a little testing building gcc's cc1 with > > DISTCC_HOSTS="draco/3 penguin/1 cygnus/1 > > where draco = 2x733MHZ P-III, penguin = 333MHZ P-II > and cygnus (localhost) = 667MHZ ppc. Machines were > connected via 10baseT.
You should really write "localhost" rather than "cygnus" to avoid needless transmission over the loopback TCP interface. It's more efficient to just run the compiler directly. Thanks for the numbers. I don't suppose you'd care to re-run the -j5 ones with "localhost"? > make CC=dcc -j1 > real 8m39.949s > user 0m32.820s > sys 0m22.330s > > make CC=dcc -j1 (lzo) > real 8m5.593s > user 0m33.510s > sys 0m22.360s That seems about right. -- Martin __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/distcc
