If I install and use OpenMosix does distcc give me any gains. Wouldn't OpenMosix distribute the jobs across the machines or does distcc do some extra stuff just for portage and compiling Gentoo.
1. Some packages are building and then executing sub-makefiles. These sub-makes aren't spawned by emerge itself, so the settings in make.conf aren't used. That means that everything is compiled using a single job again. To avid that, i've added the following line to my .bashrc config:
alias make="make -j5"
This will always use 5 jobs for every make, including manually compiled stuff.
2. I heard that some packages turn parallel builds off (don't know how they do that). I guess there's no way to enforce it, and probably it won't be a good idea to do so.
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