[distcc] Gentoo -> Slackware issue?

[Martin Pool]

Please use the list.

On 16 Nov 2003, AthlonRob <AthlonRob at axpr.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 17:52, Martin Pool wrote:
> > What exactly is the problem here?  Those logs show that things are
> > successfully being compiled on 192.168.1.2...
> 
> The logs are lying...

Uh, right.

> Either that, or things have completely changed with distcc in the last
> year.
>
> See, I'm compiling some monster things... things like the kernel... and
> the CPU on the only host listed in DISTCC_HOSTS is sitting mostly idle,
> spiking up to 25% for a few seconds, at max.
> 
> I just upped it to -j10 with one host and it started getting a little
> bit higher.  Maybe it's just network saturation... I understand there's
> some LZO compression enablable somewhere... I'll check that out?  I'm on
> a wifi link.
> 
> A year ago, when I'd run distcc, I was able to keep three computers
> crunching at 75-95% utilization without any issues...

Over wifi?  I'd be pretty surprised if you could keep three machines
busy over a (less than) 5Mbps link, unless you were building super
hairy C++ code.

Yes, adding ",lzo" to the hosts will turn on compression and probably
speed things up.

-- 
Martin 
                               linux.conf.au -- Adelaide, January 2004