[distcc] More jobs than CPUs

[Jean-Eric Cuendet]

Hi,
I have 4 hosts defined as DISTCC_HOSTS : red green blue localhost
Then I run :
    make -j8 CC= distcc

What happens?
I think that distcc spawn 3 remote processes (on red green blue) and then?
Does it send 5 processes in local?
Or does it send 1 process on localhost and then wait until one of the 4 
running is finished?
If waiting, how is it done? Is it done by polling on /tmp/distcc_xxx ? 
(That's what I saw in the code...)
Doesn't it slow down the performances?
Thanks for any help.
-jec

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