Quick update...I now have two of these things set up in a distcc cluster with my Phenom 9650. ~530 packages in 228m 34s. There's an even larger initial explosion of parallel emerge jobs, but it spreads out very nicely...I may have to increase the -j parameter in MAKEOPTS. I'm also not certain if distcc is properly deferring jobs to the local host, but I got the impression the local machine was getting a doubled workload when I had 127.0.0.1 in/etc/distccd/hosts.
ZZ On Nov 28, 2011 6:53 PM, "Michael Mol" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm currently timing > > > > MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l13" > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=13" > > > > with 493 packages (base plus X plus XFCE and chromium, and, of course, > > USE flags), but I'll start another timed run with > > > > MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l8" > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=8" > > > > once that's finished. Last night, I tried with -j16 -l10, and that > > completed in 209 minutes, but that was still with the > > PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS typo, so that datapoint is mostly useless. This > > one has already taken about 240 minutes. At least it's finished > > building Chromium, now; I hope it doesn't still need to build gcc. > > It's at 488/493. > > > > (insert) Just finished: > > > > real 208m23.880s > > user 604m27.065s > > sys 152m22.848s > > > > Apparently, I misremembered when I started it. > > (/insert) > > > > MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l8" > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=8" > > finished at > > real 217m46.366s > user 588m22.397s > sys 149m15.283s > > I'll probably set it to -l10 and leave it there; I need to start using > this box for things. > > -- > :wq >
