Re: Distribute to local machine too?
Re: Distribute to local machine too?
- Subject: Re: Distribute to local machine too?
- From: "Kevin A. Mitchell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:46:11 -0500
Apparently not, and I'm in the same situation here. I'm working at home
and am about to do a huge build, huge being, it may take 40 minutes. I'm
on a MacBook Pro, and there's an Intel iMac in the living room doing
absolutely nothing, but if I distribute to it, the MBP does no
compilation and it ends up taking longer.
The gist of what I've gotten from discussions here is that the tools
guys at Apple have determined that this is correct operation. I beg to
differ; the choice should be left up to developers to determine the
distcc configuration. We are not end users, and can cope with "enough
rope". Furthermore, Xcode is immensely configurable in many other
regards, why not this one?
I would also put forth that this is something to fix in Xcode 2, not 3.
It can't possibly be that big of a fix, and some of us are constrained
by management as to when we upgrade to new operating system revisions.
I've filed radar 4790356 at bugreporter.apple.com in hopes that it will
help get some attention to this feature. I'm not sure, but perhaps if
enough people file reports, it may get some attention from the
engineering staff.
Kevin
Ref:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/distcc.1.html
Dave Camp said the following on 10/18/06 11:57 AM:
We've got a similar problem here. On a Mac Pro with distributed builds
enabled, the 4 Xeon cores site idle and send all the work on two Intel
iMacs on the network. It's completely backwards.
Is there some secret defaults setting that can be changed to fix this?
Dave
On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Steve Mills wrote:
Is there no way to use distributed compilation to remote machines AND
to the host machine? For my PPC builds, I normally host from 1 of 2
dual G5's, the distribute to the other G5 and a dual G4. But
sometimes I'll have one of the G5's busy doing other tasks
(rendering, etc) and I don't want it in the pool. So I have a set
that doesn't include that machine. But when I use that, I found that
*all* the compiling is being done very slowly on the lowly G4, and
the G5's CPU meters barely get a workout. I'd much rather have the G5
compiling at *least* one file along with the G4 getting a workout. I
recall reading something about the host machine doing all the work of
the distribution and everything that goes along with that, but it
doesn't really seem like it takes all that much CPU for that.
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek
http://sjmills5.home.mchsi.com/
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