distcc and wine

[Paul Millar]

I've just tried distcc and its wonderful!  I haven't benchmarked it yet,
but subjectively (from watching the nodes' load-avr) distcc seems to give
*much* more even loading that just running OpenMOSIX.  If anyone has more
than one machine at their disposal, I'd strongly recommend investigating
distcc.

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Martin Pool wrote:
> I haven't tried it myself but I would have expected the short, intense
> jobs generated by compilation to be a problem [for OpenMOSIX]

Yes, I agree.  But, I think OM still has a role to play.  Running OM
underneath distcc should help improve the mean performance (in a
heterogeneous cluster).  Whenever a faster node is unloaded whilst a
slower node is busy compiling (and this situation lasts for any length of
time) OM should migrate that process to the faster node, speeding up
compilation.  That might occur just before linking, for example.

I guess the improvement will depend strongly on the composition of the
cluster and the code you're compiling.  The improvement (from running OM)
might be marginal in certain cases, but I don't think it would make things
worse.

Hmmm, time for some more experiments.

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Paul Millar