That sounded nice, if you can come with a "cluster" for compilation you may see good results, I've never used distcc but a friend got three athlon xps running and did it, he was able to install the three gentoos within a day (wich is more than I could ever expect after my 2 days stage1 install with no x or openoffice).
On 7/18/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:14:41 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > > > > > > > >>>A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly > >>>decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was > >>>particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The > >>>general jist of it was to create temporary file system in memory and > >>>mount your portage tmpdir there. For the life of me, I can't find > >>>that thread anymore. Does anyone do something similar to this? Are > >>>there noticable gains to be had. I have an Athlon 2800XP and 1 GB ram. > >>> > >>> > >>I am not sure if this will give a tremendous speedup. Granted, the > >>source files won't need to be read from disk, which is an advantage, > >>however, the file reading time should be very small compared to the > >>time it takes for the compiler to translate the source code into > >>machine code. > >>Also, there's the ammount of memory you will lose, memory that could > >>be used by the compiler. In some cases, gcc can eat very big chunks of > >>memory. > >> > >> > > > >Not to mention the OOo ebuild needing around 3GB of space in TMPDIR, so > >this approach would only result in the emerge failing quicker. > > > > > Not if you've got a machine with more than 3 GB of memory. A dual-proc > Power Mac G5 can handle up to 8 GB of physical RAM. If you did this > trick on one of those, you might see some serious improvement! But with > most PC's being limited (by the x86 and motherboard designs) to 2 GB of > physical RAM, it wouldn't work with large apps. > > A good suggestion would be to grab some old computers, Gentoo-ize them, > network them over 100BaseTX or Gigabit and make a little distcc farm. > Plus, you can charge people if they want to come over and rent your > computing power. (Virginia Tech does that with their "System X," 1,100 > dual-2.3GHz-processor XServe G5's.) :-) > -- > Colin > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
