[distcc] Using a weaker machine or not

[Martin Pool]

The main problem is that distcc is not (last time I looked) smart
enough to understand some machines are faster than others.  So if the
problem is embarrassingly parallel, you're fine, but if there is a
bottleneck the critical tasks might be stuck on slower machines.

As an unscientific rule of thumb I would not use machines that are
more than say 2-3x (per core) slower than the average.

-- 
Martin