Lisa Seelye wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:18 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Lisa Seelye wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:51 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
I've been cleaning up media-fonts/ to work with modular-X, and I see a
lot of ebuilds with stuff like this:
for font in *.bdf; do
/usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf ${font} > `basename $font .bdf`.pcf
done
gzip *.pcf
For having 100 files in *bdf, this is so serial it's painful.
And here I was hoping Distcc would get some usage. :(
Distcc gets lots of usage with modular X. But for the fonts? :)
Time for distfont? ;)
Make this distributed tool for tar zip bzip2 and gzip and I'm in, I don't think
it would be useful with anything else than Gigabit Ethernet.
We might want to have in the make.conf 2 separate variables, one of them saying
how many threads can be run on the machine, then How many threads/process across
a cluster.
For example, my Dual Xeon EM64T file server can do make -j4 locally, like in
make install, make docs etc etc, But for compiling I can use -j20, really not
useful over -j8 anyway. But the point is, it would be usefully to separate the
load distribution on the local machine and cluster nodes.
Philippe Trottier
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