Distributed Build not any faster
Distributed Build not any faster
- Subject: Distributed Build not any faster
- From: Wes Plate <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:54:38 -0800
- Thread-topic: Distributed Build not any faster
Today I set up for my programmers two new 8-core Mac Pros (now there are
three OctoMacs) so we wanted to see how must distributed builds speed things
up. All three Mac Pros are running the latest OS (OS X client 10.5.6) and
Xcode 3.1.2 and during the build all three systems are working, you can see
their CPUs go to work in Activity Monitor. But the results weren't
impressive, a build that took about 5 minutes on a single machine took about
5 minutes on all three.
The network is Gigbit ethernet and is generally quite speedy.
Are distributed builds just not worth it in these days of multi-core Macs,
or is there something we need to do to see real speed gains?
--
Wes Plate
Automatic Duck, Inc.
http://www.automaticduck.com
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