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From: Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>
Subject: Re: Some problems with 2.6.13.4
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:27:15 +0900
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Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Jesper Juhl [Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 10:22:22PM +0200]:
> 
>>On 10/15/05, Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org> wrote:
>>[snip]
>>
>>>Could we somehow debug this differently or do I have to install
>>>2.6.13.2 and 2.6.13.1, too? It would take simply hours until it is
>>>finished here.
>>>
>>
>>If you have another, faster, machine available you could build the
>>kernel(s) on that one.
> 
> Actually, one of my fastest machines is this one:
> 
> bruehe2# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> [...]
> model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
> cpu MHz         : 551.280
> [...]
> 
> And one, which has a not-so-good connection to me.
> 
> 
>>You don't have to build a kernel on the same
>>machine that is later supposed to run it.
> 
> 
> That's clear :-)
> 
> 
>>Also, if you have more than one machine (even if they are not
>>especially fast) then you can use distcc (http://distcc.samba.org/) to
>>distribute the build over multiple machines which can speed up a build
>>a great deal.
> 
> 
> distcc will fail here, because of different gccs and different distributions
> (ever tried to use gentoo and distcc in the same distcc-network? It's a real
> pain).
How come?
I am using distcc + ccache in default install with at least -j5 on my network of Gentoo machines.
And building a kernel with -j8 on 4 boxen (P4@2GHz each) is a snap.
Particularly pleasing to watch distccmon-gui :-D

Kalin.

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