[distcc] why always compiling local if host not accessible ?

[Martin Pool]

On 28 Jan 2004, Heiko_Elger at arburg.com wrote:

> >> And this is a problem because your local machine is very slow, or
> >> something like that?


> No my local machine is not slow (Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz, 1 GB RAM),
> but if you start a make job and this make job takes a lot of time
> (1-2 hours) and you still want to work on this machine - every
> compile-job running make this machine slower. This is perhaps why
> it's a Windows XP with Cygwin running .... - it seems that
> preprocessing and compiling is hard job running on Cygwin ...

OK.  The slowdown is not really visible on Linux, at least for things
I build.  I guess Cygwin is not very efficient compared to either
system's native compiler.

I don't mind making it try another remote machine as the fallback.

-- 
Martin
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