Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

[Al <al@ngale.adsl24.co.uk>]

On Friday 17 December 2010 22:56:29 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I've bought (against my better judgement) an Atom N270 box to be a LAN
> server, but it's a bit slow compared with the other boxes on the
> network. A big bit, actually - 69 minutes to compile a kernel compared
> with less than 9 minutes on this workstation.
> 
> I thought I'd give distcc a go, but after reading the Gentoo distcc and
> crossdev guides and doing what they say I get no result. I might just as
> well not have made the effort. The Atom box just labours with the emerge
> without trying to send anything to the server box I've set up for the
> purpose.
> 
> Are the Gentoo guides up to date?
Hi I have a N270 netbook and use crossdev and distcc.
It is definately usefull but for doing a kernel compile I havn't tried it.
Do you see any improvement when using for emerges.
Whats your setup like

Al