[distcc] Multiple people running distcc at once, using one DISTCC_DIR

[Victor Norman]

All,

I'm trying to roll-out the use of distcc here in our organization among our 70
or so software engineers (see previous post "My big plans for distcc").  I'm
running into a few issues with multiple engineers doing compiles at once.  Here
are the specs: distcc2.16 on sparc-sun-solaris2.7 and linux.  All engineers are
going to use one DISTCC_DIR (which is /us/norman/.distcc for now).  So, the
same hosts file and the same lock and state directories will be used for
everyone.  This is necessary (see previous posting) so that a single server
that can handle n compilations is not hit with n * m compilations, where m is
the number of engineers doing a compile at that time.

Here are the problems we are noticing:

1. We've noticed that the lock files are not cleaned up when a compilation is
done (i.e., when an instance of distcc finishes).  For example, in
/us/norman/.distcc/lock, I see 4 files: cpu_tcp_swbuild-linux1_3632_{0,1,2,3}. 
And, my compilation is done.  I thought those files should have been removed.

The problem with this is that each of those files is owned by norman (me), and
has -rw-r--r-- permissions.  So, when my friend, pjayamoh, tries to compile and
distcc picks swbuild-linux1 as the host to compile on, it will fail because
distcc won't be able to open/remove/replace the lock file.

Is this just a matter of changing our umasks?  Or is this a real problem?

2. Also, when pjayamoh cannot open that file, distcc falls back immediately to
trying to compile locally.  That's fine, but I would have thought that it would
have tried some other slots and/or hosts first, which it doesn't seem to be
doing (I'm not sure about this one, though -- correct me if I'm wrong).


Thanks for your help.

Vic




	
		
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