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Maurice van der Pot wrote: | On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:07:25PM +0000, Ian Leitch wrote: | |>In a nutshell, emerge requests made on the production system are sent to |>a "build server", which compiles the package(s) and notifies the |>production server when the binary package is ready for download. | | | (Not trying to be cynical, it just came out that way) | | So you mean instead of spending all of your money on a single server (the | production server), you now spend it on two separate servers and thereby | partition the available CPU power to have one part always available for | compiling even when the production server is really busy and nothing is | being emerged?
You spent 95% of your money on a production server and the rest on a ~500mhz build server, or just link up as many crappy machines you can get your hands on and have a distcc network. You could even have your production server as part of the distcc network if you're that worried about not using an idle cpu.
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