[distcc] DistCC questions, Cygwin Environnement

[Fergus Henderson]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Michael Donohue <michael.donohue at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Fergus Henderson <fergus at google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Alexandre Genereux <
>> Alexandre.Genereux at labtronix.biz> wrote:
>>
>>> 3- Is there any way to make the list of host computer without preference
>>> for
>>> the first computer in it?
>>
>>
>> Yes, there's the "--randomize" option in DISTCC_HOSTS specification.
>>
>
> I didn't think any of the randomization patches were available with
> 2.18.3.
>

The --randomize option is supported in distcc 3.0, which is now publicly
available at <http://distcc.googlecode.com>.


> Also, for a heterogeneous compute farm, such as one with end-users mixed in
> with dedicated powerful build boxes, the randomization scheme should set the
> probabilities according to the machine power.  The number of available
> compile slots is a good measure of this.  Some time ago I submitted a patch
> that would do this - it would select a machine with two available slots
> twice as often as the machine with only one.
>

That patch doesn't appear to have made it into distcc 3.0.  If you want to
apply this change to distcc 3.0, I'd be happy to review the change.

Cheers,
  Fergus.
-- 
Fergus Henderson <fergus at google.com>
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