Distributed Build confusion
Distributed Build confusion
- Subject: Distributed Build confusion
- From: Matt Gough <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:17:34 +0100
OK, So I've been doing some timing recently on building with and
without Distributed builds turned on.
To cut a long story short, on my 2.66GHz Mac Pro (4 cores) my project
always builds faster without distributed builds than it does with it
turned on.
(Around the office we have a roughly 50-50 split of similar Mac Pros
and Intel iMacs (2GHz I think) 10 Macs in all.)
OK, so I can understand that there is a lot of network traffic and
overhead in managing the build, but what I didn't realise until now
was this:
When using Distributed builds, the local Mac doesn't actually do much
compiling itself. I had always assumed my machine would be doing 4
compiles (one for each core) as well as farming out other compiles to
the network, but it doesn't. My Mac just sits around idly (CPU
hovering around 8%) while it waits for results to come in from the
network. No wonder the entire build is slower.
Is there some way to get it to behave how I expect as opposed to how
it currently is, as that then should result in a faster build time.
BTW - this is all with Shared workgroup build, not Dedicated network
build
Thanks
Matt Gough
Agfa Graphics
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