[distcc] should driving machine be part of the "farm" ?

spipyeah spip_yeah at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 15 13:07:18 GMT 2003


Naturally, compiling on the machine that drives
compilation has low overhead.

But, if a large number of machines are part of the
distcc "farm", I suspect most of the driving machine's
time would be better spent doing preprocessing &
feeding only, and as such increase the chances of
always having something ready to handle to machines
that finish their distcc compilation jobs.

I'm just hoping to collect some opinions on this
matter. For a large project a for a cluster of about 8
machines, is it actually better to dedicated the
driving machine to do preprocessing only? (and so not
include it in the hosts file).



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