> watching the g3 closely with top while the quadra compiles. It looks
> like compiling a routine the mac takes about 20 seconds, three seconds
> on the g3 compiling and 2 seconds of the network (lights flash on my
> hub-switch). So I figure simple arithmetic this is about the best one can
> do. that is even if compile took 0 seconds that could only be another
> 15% improvement (or with my g4 which is 3x the g3 then 10%).
>
> I don't know if there could be any way to reduce this overhead factor.
The elapsed time on the mac will at least in part be due to disk I/O, and
the Mac is pretty bad in this (Linux, that is). aranym might indeed be a
better choice as front end for distcc.
Michael
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