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

[Victor Norman]

Dan,

I remember reading that caveat.  But, I'd like to know more: Why doesn't having
DISTCC_DIR on NFS work well?  Are there known problems with file locking and
NFS?  Other reasons?  Problems that I could fix with some work?

I'm not giving up so easily... :-)

Vic



--- Daniel Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:

> Victor Norman wrote:
> > --- Daniel Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>I don't think you should be sharing a .distcc directory between
> >>multiple users.  It's not a common configuration, and there are
> >>sure to be problems.
> > 
> > Does "the community" agree?  I thought this was the recommended setup.
> 
> http://distcc.samba.org/faq.html#monitor-nfs says
> "Having DISTCC_DIR on NFS doesn't work well at the moment.
> Please set DISTCC_DIR to a local directory instead."
> 
> > If I don't share a common .distcc directory then how do I solve my
> worst-case
> > scenario: 15 developers suddenly have to compile the entire tree.  They all
> put
> > only the best hosts into their host files (because, after all, they each
> want a
> > really fast compile), and they all start up their compilation.  The result
> is a
> > bunch of blocked distcc tcp connects to machines with long tcp "listen"
> queues,
> > and ultimately, very slow compiles...
> 
> Easy.  Give up on the idea of having fast and slow machines in the cluster.
> Toss out all the slow ones.  Treat all the remaining machines as identical.
> Randomization then does the trick for you.
> - Dan
> 



		
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