On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 14:05 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, all, > > I run Gentoo on a very old 150 mhz pentium laptop. As you can imagine, > it's painful to update Gentoo packages on it. I've been attempting > to use distcc and crossdev so that the more more modern i686 machines on my > local network can do most of the compiling for this i586 box. However, > I haven't been very successful in offloading its compilations to the faster > boxes:
[snip] > fast_box_1/2 fast_box_2/2 localhost/1 looks good to me. just remember: 1. not every ebuild can use parallel compilation - some have it disabled because it causes compiler errors - they override MAKEOPTS to -j1 2. I think an ebuild may be able to over-ride the distcc setting (not sure) which would make all 5 jobs run locally - again because of problems when it's enabled 3. ./configure scripts can only happen locally - sometimes there are compiles or at least CPU intensive tasks going on here (esp if you have a slow cpu) so unfortunately, distcc doesn't speed _every_ compile up by drastic amounts, but when it does - it does! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with the handbrake on. (Unknown source) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
