My understanding from talking to MrO and Jack Morgans lecture is that Agent Smith and
I have a PIII 800MHz and an Athalon 1.2 GHz and I'm
trying to speed up my compile times by sharing the
load across two computers. Asside from making a
cluster or something like that is there a way to set
that up?
It's in gentoo's portage twee!
For embedded devices or older computers, it means you can build packages on a faster machine (or group of machines) to take advantage of the increased processing power. distcc works closely with gcc to ensure that distcc distributed compiles produce the same result as using gcc directly.
1. http://distcc.samba.org/
distcc 1.2.3 was recently marked as stable in the Portage tree, so users are encouraged to try it out and discover the wonders of distributed compiling. Obviously, there's a lot more to distcc than is described here. Users interested in learning more should check out the following resources:
* distcc home page[1] * Using distcc with Portage[1] * Accelerating compilation, Part 2: distcc[1]
Morpheus (the athlon and p3 boxes mentioned above for those not familiar) can work well together. I'm assuming you will have linux on each of the culprits?
John F
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