In my case I'm noticing an improvement with my mac distributing jobs to a single Ubuntu machine but not compiling itself (Right now we don't support distributing mac jobs to other mac, primarily because we just want to maintain one homogeneous cluster).
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Gijs Kruitbosch <gijskruitbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/07/2016 22:06, Benoit Girard wrote: > >> So to emphasize, if you compile a lot and only have one or two machines >> on your 100mps or 1gbps LAN you'll still see big benefits. >> > > I don't understand how this benefits anyone with just one machine (that's > compatible...) - there's no other machines to delegate compile tasks to (or > to fetch prebuilt blobs from). Can you clarify? Do you just mean "one extra > machine"? Am I misunderstanding how this works? > > ~ Gijs > > > >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Gijs Kruitbosch <gijskruitbo...@gmail.com >> > >> wrote: >> >> What about people not lucky enough to (regularly) work in an office, >>> including but not limited to our large number of volunteers? Do we intend >>> to set up something public for people to use? >>> >>> ~ Gijs >>> >>> >>> On 04/07/2016 20:09, Michael Layzell wrote: >>> >>> If you saw the platform lightning talk by Jeff and Ehsan in London, you >>>> will know that in the Toronto office, we have set up a distributed >>>> compiler >>>> called `icecc`, which allows us to perform a clobber build of >>>> mozilla-central in around 3:45. After some work, we have managed to get >>>> it >>>> so that macOS computers can also dispatch cross-compiled jobs to the >>>> network, have streamlined the macOS install process, and have refined >>>> the >>>> documentation some more. >>>> >>>> If you are in the Toronto office, and running a macOS or Linux machine, >>>> getting started using icecream is as easy as following the instructions >>>> on >>>> the wiki: >>>> >>>> >>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Using_Icecream >>>> >>>> If you are in another office, then I suggest that your office starts an >>>> icecream cluster! Simply choose one linux desktop in the office, run the >>>> scheduler on it, and put its IP in the Wiki, then everyone can connect >>>> to >>>> the network and get fast builds! >>>> >>>> If you have questions, myself, BenWa, and jeff are probably the ones to >>>> talk to. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-platform mailing list >>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
