DISTCC: http://distcc.samba.org It's quite simple to use and I would recommend building all your portage that way, it takes all of 1min to setup and the payoff is large. (about 75-85% performance increase for each host added) Basically for portage you just emerge distcc and add distcc in your FEATURES line. The downside is that not all of portage does not support make -j(n) so some packages will not take advantage of it. Another option is to compile on a different box, you can set your DISTCC_HOSTS to not include the local machine, which will cause most actual compiling to take place somewhere else. ie. DISTCC_HOSTS="thisbox fastbox" will split the compiles across thisbox and fastbox, however, DISTCC_HOSTS="fastbox" will make all the compiles take place on fastbox...handy for that 166 when fastbox is a 2.0GHz. Additionally, you can use DISTCC with the Cygwin cross-compiler to use a XP (or set of XP) box as a compile host. This is what I do, do a minimal install of Cygwin (~5min?) and then follow the excellent HOWTO at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=66930 or grab my cross-linux-3.2.3.tar.bz2 at: ftp://ftp.dympna.com/cross-linux-3.2.3.tar.bz2 (23.3MB) and untar into /usr/local and do /usr/local/bin/distccd.sh (~5min?) and add that xp box into your DISTCC_HOSTS line: DISTCC_HOSTS="thisbox fastbox xpbox" I've even included a script to make DISTCC run as an NT service (/usr/local/bin/mkservice) so it has no visible effect on XP/NT...just runs in the background. Downside is that it's a 23.3MB download, but you only need it once per toolchain change. (currently it's at gcc-3.2.3 / glibc-2.3.2 / binuntils-2.14.(forgot) / distcc-2.8) which is the current stable build environment. -Rob On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:11:29 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote > On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:00, Prabhat Gupta wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > Prabhat Gupta wrote: > > >> I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also > > >> compile time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :( > > > > > > Consider using distcc to speed up compile time. I've never used it > > > myself, but I've heard good things about it. Better yet, do the > > > compiling on an insanely overspecced server and cp the filesystem onto > > > your laptop afterwards :) > > > > > > Condiser NFS/iSCSI/whatever for /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage . > > > You should only need those when installing things, so it might be okay > > > to put them on a different box... > > > > > > Don't emerge kde. Emerge kde-base and whatever else you need. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > Thanks, > > > > Any ideas, how to use distcc? I am currently doing bootstrapping. > > > > Also I do have a fast machine with gentoo installed but I don't know how > > to setup NFS and use it for installation? > > > > Any pointers? > > As I said before I haven't used distcc before, but I suggest not > using in conjuction with your "slow" laptops. You will end up having > the fast machine wait for the laptops to finish compiling something > it could have done quicker by itself. If you can use the fast > machine to do the compiling, do like I said before but use the -B > flag to emerge rather than adding "buildpkg" to FEATURES; that will > build the packages without installing them. NFS I believe to be > fairly easy to set up. Do a man mount and if that doesn't help just > search for "nfs howto" with google and you should be right. > > Jason > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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