On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:23 +0200, Philippe Trottier wrote:
> Make this distributed tool for tar zip bzip2 and gzip and I'm in, I don't 
> think 
> it would be useful with anything else than Gigabit Ethernet.

app-arch/pbzip2

It covers only bzip2, but proves that it can be done.  I tend to like it
for catalyst, since it helps a lot on SMP machines.

> We might want to have in the make.conf 2 separate variables, one of them 
> saying 
> how many threads can be run on the machine, then How many threads/process 
> across 
> a cluster.
> 
> For example, my Dual Xeon EM64T file server can do make -j4  locally, like in 
> make install, make docs etc etc, But for compiling I can use -j20, really not 
> useful over -j8 anyway. But the point is, it would be usefully to separate 
> the 
> load distribution on the local machine and cluster nodes.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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