From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Pool Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 04:44:09 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Parallel make Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On 15 May 2003, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Yes, distcc is really nice. I have been using it for a month or so > for my kernel compiles using a cluster of Itanium 2 machines. What > I like is that it is really easy to setup. The danger with the > approach is that you can easily overload your local (master) host. It can work well to use -l as well as -j, to put an upper limit on the load on the master host. If you have 2 local CPUs and 8 altogether then perhaps. make -l4 -j10 That ought to make concurrency ramp down as it gets into the linking phase. I ought to add that to the manual/faq. > As for kernel compiles for 2.5, there are a lot of ld steps > which are still all done on the master node. Besides that you > can really feel the speed difference. I need to take a look at ccache > now that you mention it. > > Very cool. Thanks, I'm glad you like it. -- Martin