Hey,
On Tuesday, October 24, 2006, at 01:13 PM, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
In my distcc tests with m68ks, I got a speedup of roughly 100% when
using
two m68ks (1x 060/1x 040) and compiling a kernel via 2 DSL links and
VPN.
So, I guess using hosts on the local network won't be slower... ;)
I once compiled stuff among a pentium and a celeron (two laptops) while
using gentoo, which has notoriously long builds.
My experience is that the build is about as reliable as make -j2. That
is if it works for that it works for both (reasonable). LAN should help
a bit, I have seen some overhead: some packages did even slow down
considerably (when trying to force the whole compilation on the remote
host). I did also attempt to use a very slow and a very fast computer
and for several packages build time decreased only little. But for some
packages you can get speedups from 50% to 150%, as you mention.
Given the scarcity of 68k resources, even an older PII or PIII with
polenty of ram and a good link among the two computers would help
greatly. We should check the difficult packages we have and elect those
fot distcc (not use it blindly).
One thing to note is that the two boxes should try to run the whole
compiler toolchan equal up to minor releases, I had problems with that
even on x86 otherwise.
Have a nice day,
Riccardo
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