Suggestions.

[Rich Edelman]

Here's something I'm curious about... Distcc is only for compiling stuff, so 
why not just run an openmosix cluster instead? That way you'd get the 
benefits of the extra machines with any program that is capable, not just the 
make process.

Rich

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 12:36 pm, Duane Attaway wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Steven Elling wrote:
> > Have you thought about using distcc and ccache?
>
> Thanks, I'll have to try those out.  Once I compiled my kernel using
> make's fork bomb option "make -j bzlilo" (try THAT sometime) and wanted to
> know how distribute the insane load to other machines.
>
> Homepage:  http://distcc.samba.org/
> Description: a program to distribute compilation of C code across several
> machines on a network
>
> Homepage:  http://ccache.samba.org/
> Description: ccache is a fast compiler cache. It is used as a front end to
> your compiler to safely cache compilation output. When the same code is
> compiled again the cached output is used giving a significant speedup.
>
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