[distcc] Loadbalanced distcc

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Thu Jan 5 15:52:15 GMT 2006


On 1/5/06, Victor Norman <vtnpgh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Your simpler implementation has obvious advantages and disadvantages, which
> I'll enumerate:
> ...
> Disadvantages:
> o when doing large builds, the load average on a machine can change
> significantly, especially when multiple users are sharing the compilation
> farm.  Dmucs adapts to this situation automatically, whereas your solution
> won't, as I understand it.

Right - my approach picks servers once, yours picks them with up-to-date
information every time.   I have ideas for coming closer to what you do,
but haven't tried them yet.
- Dan

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