[distcc] Using a weaker machine or not

[shawn]

On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 21:03 +0300, Αναστασίου Γεώργιος wrote: 
> Hmm thanks for your reply,do you use only amd e-350 for compile farm?
> If yes,then it's not the same situation,cause i am trying to help a cpu
> which is 5 times faster than amd e350 with this one,so maybe it is a
> bottleneck.Can you share your configuration??

I've also got an AMD phenom 3x, and a 2x, all pretty slow computers. You
can always run 2 compile threads per core on the faster machines,
although I'm not doing anything fancy like that. If you do a
well-parallelized build like the Linux kernel than it doesn't really
matter if its a bit asynchronous. 
> 
> On 18 July 2012 19:52, shawn <shawnlandden at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:06 +0300, Αναστασίου Γεώργιος wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > These days i am trying to setup distcc in order to improve compiling time
> > > for my desktop's gentoo installation.Right now i have 3 servers(all 3 are
> > > clients too),all of them use Gentoo,the first desktop is using amd athlon
> > > II x4 630(4 cores),the second one is athlon II x2 240(2 cores),and the
> > last
> > > one is amd e-350(2 cores).This order is from the strongest to the weakest
> > > cpu i have in my own.
> > >
> > > I have done some benchmarks in order to see if it is possible athlon II
> > x4
> > > 630 can be helped by the other 2 cpus,but i dont see any improvement...
> > >
> > > My benchmark was to count the compiling time for (emerge -e
> > > binutils)....and the makeopts i used was -j11(5 for localhost,3 for
> > athlon
> > > ,and 2 for e350).
> > >
> > > Any my question is,is it possible a weaker machine to help a stronger
> > > machine?If yes,then how??
> >
> > I use distcc with up to 3 E-350 machines at a time, and it helps
> > compilation speeds alot.
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Shawn Landden
> >
> >
> __
> distcc mailing list            http://distcc.samba.org/
> To unsubscribe or change options:
> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc


-- 
-Shawn Landden