[distcc] compression question

[Brian Hall]

I am using two AMD64 Gentoo based PCs, a server with dual 1.8G Opterons 
and a client/workstation with a 2.0G S754 A64. The server has GBe, and 
so does the client, but I've recently discovered that the r8169 driver 
gives me NFS timeouts on high traffic (large NFS transfers), so I've 
dropped back to using a Intel PCI 100MB card (e100).

My question is, given the above relatively fast hardware, is it worth it 
to enable lzo compression? I believe the A64 chips will compress very 
quickly. I am just looking to minimize the compilation slowdown caused 
by going from a GB connection for distcc to 100MB.

My current config, with MAKEOPTS=-j6 in /etc/make.conf:

# distcc-config --get-hosts
zippy/4 localhost/2

Proposed config, if it is likely to be faster:
zippy/4,lzo localhost/2


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Brian Hall
Linux Consultant
http://pcisys.net/~brihall