Server Woes & distcc
Well, Gollum appears to have been rejecting *all* email for about the last day. I turns out that an upgrade of Perl went horribly wrong, resulting in an unusable installation. The mail server uses Perl for all the virus scanning and anti-virus stuff, so without Perl, all mail was just held up. It looks like things are settling back down now that I’ve gotten the Perl install fixed.
I started playing with distcc last night in preparation for building Gentoo on my old laptop (Gimli). I certainly don’t want to do all the compiling on a 200MHz laptop. I’ve got both Gollum and Aragorn (my desktop) to throw in the compile pool. Gollum is around a 1.5GHz machine, while Aragorn clocks in at just over 2GHz. I did some compiling from both those machines last night testing to see how much of an average speed boost I can get out of distcc. There is a noticable difference even when the localhost is the fastest on the network, I can’t wait to see how it does from the laptop.
distcc is awesome… a couple weeks ago I was building a gentoo system for somebody and had 3 athlons on the network compiling for it, one of which was a windows box running the cygwin version of distcc. Good luck with it.
Hey Chemmett, good to hear from you. The only thing holding me back at the moment from finishing out my install is finding a boot disk with chroot on it. I don’t know, maybe I can just boot off the disk I have and then somehow grab chroot separately.