06/06/2005
distcc with gentoo
I wanted to install gentoo on an old pII at 400MHz I own. The compilation time would take really really long if it was done on that machine only…that’s where I thought about installing distcc to my other gentoo machines. I followed Gentoo Distcc Documentation and in a few minutes I was able to compile stuff concurrently between 3 different machines, an athlonxp 2800+, an athlonxp 2500+ and and that pII 400MHz. I edited /etc/make.conf and replaced
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
with
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
The machines were all i686 and the whole process was a lot faster than it would if I compiled only at that old pII. I am now running an emerge –emptytree just to check if all will be compiled cleanly with distcc without problems.
Filed by kargig at 11:37 under General,Linux
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