[distcc] Using a weaker machine or not

Αναστασίου Γεώργιος ganastasiougr at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 12:29:03 MDT 2012


And in real time how much time did you earn by that?

So for example if you want to compile something for phenom x3,then your
host file is,phenom3/6 phenom2/4 amd350/2 ?


On 18 July 2012 21:08, shawn <shawnlandden at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > >
> > >
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>
> --
> -Shawn Landden
>
>
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