Re: Distributed build overhead and Mac Mini vs XServe pricing
Re: Distributed build overhead and Mac Mini vs XServe pricing
- Subject: Re: Distributed build overhead and Mac Mini vs XServe pricing
- From: Andy Satori <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:27:49 -0500
I don't know how much help this is, but I have an Xserve (web server,
lightwieght db server) that's underutilized as a server since it's
internal use only serving 4 people in my small development company :-),
and it's set up as an xcode distcc machine as well. I'm the only Mac
user in the house, so I have the machine more or less to myself with
those extra cycles.
So I use the server and it's two processors as my build machines in
addition to my powerbook.
What I find is that for smaller projects (under 10 source files), there
is no noticable difference, however as the number of files grow, the
performance gains are noticable.
When I go home is where I really see it though.
At home, I have access to several machines, my PowerMac G5 (dual 2ghz)
desktop, my wife's PB g4 (800) and my daughters iBook G3 (600). I have
all of them set up as compile farm machines, and for my biggest project
(about 200 files in total, about 7 dependant projects all built from
the main project) I go from about 25 minutes on just the G4 to about 16
minutes using everything in the house.
Yes, I'm pondering adding a couple of Mini's to the stable for that
very reason :-)
Andy
On Jan 21, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Mike Lazear wrote:
On Jan 15, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Andrew Kimpton wrote:
Mark Lentczner wrote:
On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:59 PM, Andrew Kimpton wrote:
So I won't bother with a KVM - just have a spare monitor or
keyboard lying around for emergencies.
Does this mean that we know for sure that the mini will boot and run
w/o display, keyboard nor mouse connected? Even though it is
running non-server version of OS X? That has been the one thing
holding me back...
I don't know that for sure - but it seems unlikely. A 10.3.7
installation on other hardware has no keyboard, mouse, display
requirement so I don't see why a Mini would be any different.
I got my Mac Mini today. I'm in the process of loading it. I'm going
to load XCode and set up the distributed build options. Later today I
will try out booting it without the display, keyboard or mouse.
I try and run a few test and then feedback the results.
Mike
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