I have you don't any tests for over a network with latency like the internet? I'm wondering if, because the curernt distcc protocol is rather gross, one will get better compile times considering teh transfering of the files might take longer than actually compiling. On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:27:37 -0500 (EST) Ryan Caron <rcaron@WPI.EDU> wrote:

It appears that at least a couple people here are using Gentoo. I am working on building a DistCC (Distributed C Compiling) network so that our "emerge -u world" and Stage 1 installations go by that much quicker. It has substantially improved my installation time - my first Stage 1 install, which did not use Distcc took nearly 3 days (some downtime was incurred since I had to sleep and go to class). With only 2 Pentium 4's and 1 Pentium 3, I was able to cut that time down to about 24 hours - the installation was on my 1.6Ghz Celeron, so you know that most of the compiling capabilities wasn't done on that!

If you would like to use the Distcc network I'm putting together to get your Gentoo box running or to make emerge -u world that much quicker, all I ask is that you please run the Distcc server on your machine as well. The list of servers, scheduled emerge -u world times, and a script I wrote to automatically do emerge -u world is available at: http://www.acm.wpi.edu/~rcaron/Gentoo.shtml

Gentoo's HOW-TO on configuring DistCC is at: http://www.Gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml

Please email me if you have any questions or would like to contribute to the network.

Sincerely, Ryan Caron ACM Secretary

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