lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > Hi, > > what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? > > I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one > emerge is running on) through distcc settings because the local > machine is relatively slow. Yet I can see some gcc processes running > on the local machine, and emerging goes painfully slow. Using distcc > doesn't seem to make it any faster, though disabling local compiling > seems to help a bit. > > Some compilations are being run on the remote machine, so distcc does > work. The log file on the remote machine shows compilation times of a > few milliseconds up to about 1.5 seconds at most. The distcc server > would be finished with the emerging within maybe 15 minutes, and the > client takes several hours already. > > Is there something going wrong? Is there a way to speed things up as > much as I would expect from using distcc?
P.S.: distccmon is a good tool to watch the compilation processes.
