Philippe Trottier wrote:
> Lisa Seelye wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:18 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
>>
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>>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Lisa Seelye wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:51 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been cleaning up media-fonts/ to work with modular-X, and I see a
>>>>> lot of ebuilds with stuff like this:
>>>>> for font in *.bdf; do
>>>>> /usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf ${font} > `basename $font .bdf`.pcf
>>>>> done
>>>>> gzip *.pcf
>>>>>
>>>>> For having 100 files in *bdf, this is so serial it's painful.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And here I was hoping Distcc would get some usage. :(
>>>>
>>>
>>> Distcc gets lots of usage with modular X. But for the fonts? :)
>>
>>
>> Time for distfont? ;)
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
As the discusison started...
I would like to be able to limit the -jN when there is no distcc host
available or when compiling c++ code, otherwise my poor laptop is dead with
-j5 compiling pwlib when the network is down....
It is particular example, but being able to limit portage in some way as
total CPU, total MEM might be interesting (just nice-ing is not enough)
Kalin.
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