[plug] distcc benchmark

[William Kenworthy]

I agree, distcc does provide a gain, but its often minor, and is highly
variable depending on a number of factors.

"emerge unmerge x" will uninstall the file, however if you are running
ccache as well (and you should be if interested in compile performance),
deinstall it whilst benchmarking distcc.  Also try and measure caching
effects - you may need to reboot each machine between runs to get a
clean run.

Doing this accurately and meaningfully is not as easy as it first seems
...

BillK

On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 01:25, Craig Foster wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----

> With all the reliance on nested makes, distcc doesn't perform as good as it
> first seems.
> Next-door's LFS with Kernel 2.6.1 and KDE-everything 3.2 spent the bulk of
> its time on the main machine preprocessing and performing the makes for the
> current subdirectory. Lucky he went SMP...
> 
> Have you tried the Knoppix-distcc boot-from-CD? Indispenable for this kind
> of stuff. :)
> 
> > 
> > what commands will wipe anything to do with that file (emerge 
> > -C file?)
> > 
> > MungoTheB