[distcc] More jobs than CPUs

[darryl]

Seems I was wrong.

It only appears as a problem when i am compiling FROM a windows cygwin
box. I ran make -j8 (from the linux box) (i only have 3 distcc_hosts) it
ran ok.

If i run make -jx from the cygwin box, it doesn't seem to like using
localhost as a distcc client....

-darryl


> Thus spake darryl:
>
>> While i dont' have an answer to the question it does remind me to
>> point out something that happened to me when specifying more jobs than
>> CPU's using Windows 2000 cygwin 'hosts.' The scenario is building on
>> linux using Cygwin->linux cross-compilers on 2 windows boxes.
>>
>> If i specify make -jx where x is more than the actual number of CPU's
>> available; the cygwin boxes go crazy... 100% CPU usage by distccd. I
>> basically have to kill distccd on the main machine then kill distccd
>> on the cygwin boxes to regain control.
>
> Ah, that means you are not wasting electricity then :)  Except for
> burning spare cycles running windows.
>
> 100% CPU, and _crazy_ does not supprise me on windows.  Process
> management is less than desirable in windows.
>