[distcc] Re: speedup with >2 hosts

[mbp at sourcefrog.net]

On  6 Apr 2004, SCHMID Stefan <Stefan.Schmid at cern.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> yes, all my hosts are equal (1.96 Ghz). The transfer of a
> file of 170 MBytes from one machine to the other takes less than 17
> seconds, i.e. we have a bandwidth of at least 10
> MBytes/s. A ping takes between 0.100 ms and 0.300 ms.

What OS and compiler are you using?

> When I plot the uptime, localhost goes up to 10, but the remote hosts hardly 
> exceed 1! (using -j10) Do you have an idea why? 

Are you sure that distcc is actually being used for every compiler
invocation?

> And also: why do the execution times vary so much from run to run?

-- 
Martin
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