[distcc] Distcc over internet

[Christophe LYON]

Hello,

I don't use distcc over ADSL, but I use it in conjunction with DMUCS 
(http://dmucs.sourceforge.net/), which allows some sort of load balancing.
On each machine you start a 'loadavg' daemon, on the master you start 
the dmucs server which collects info from loadavg.

Then, instead of calling distcc directly, you use "gethost -s master 
distcc....".
In effect, gethost overrides DISTCC_HOSTS with the 'best' host value 
based on load average.

So I guess that if some machines are down in your configuration, they 
won't be part of pool managed by 'master'. Yet, it requires that your 
'master' is always up & running.

Christophe.


On 27.02.2008 09:43, JJDaNiMoTh wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> Me and my friends are trying to set up a compiling cluster over
> internet ( all with ADSL 4 Mbit/256Kbit ) with distcc. The first big
> problem is the timeout of connection; some people aren't connected same
> time, and distcc try to senf them jobs, and it wait 5 minutes before
> handling down the connection; In the man page I see that timeout isn't
> coded, but in this mailing list I see many patch ( from 2003 ). Any
> news about this point?
> 
> What is the best configuration set to compile over internet? We're
> reached this point: distccd executed with very low priority ( nice
> 19 ), DISTCC_HOSTS with localhost first and then other machine, with
> lzo compression enabled and {number of CPU} limit for each machine.
> With 3 machines, the most powerful system loose 9 seconds and the
> smallest gain 5 seconds. Do you think that these number will increased
> if more machines will be added ( We want to improve time compilation,
> not to loose :D )? The best -j[NUMBER] in this case is
> number_of_total_cpu * 2 or something else?
> 
> Thank you
> 
>