[gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

[gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

[Xi Shen]

hi,

i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are
configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started
emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2
remote machine is compiling, while the other one is idle. if i change
the address order in the /etc/distcc/hosts file, the idle started to
work, and the previous working one becomes idle.

how can i make all of them work?


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Re: [gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

[Alex Schuster]

Xi Shen writes:

> i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are
> configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started
> emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2
> remote machine is compiling, while the other one is idle. if i change
> the address order in the /etc/distcc/hosts file, the idle started to
> work, and the previous working one becomes idle.
> 
> how can i make all of them work?

What ebuild is this? There are some that tweak the MAKEOPTS settings to 
-j1 because they do not want parallel compilation. Have a look at the 
ebuild. I would try some other packages, this might not be a bug at all.

	Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

[Roger Mason]

Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com> writes:

> i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are
> configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started
> emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2
> remote machine is compiling, while the other one is idle. if i change
> the address order in the /etc/distcc/hosts file, the idle started to
> work, and the previous working one becomes idle.
>
> how can i make all of them work?

Try emerging app-misc/mc as a test just in case the package you are
using explicitly disables distcc, as Alex Schuster pointed out.  It is
small and I have always found that it compiles fine with distcc.

Just passing on a tip I saw in this forum.

Good luck,
Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

[Stroller]

On 4 Dec 2009, at 13:51, Xi Shen wrote:
>
> i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are
> configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started
> emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2
> remote machine is compiling, while the other one is idle. if i change
> the address order in the /etc/distcc/hosts file, the idle started to
> work, and the previous working one becomes idle.

Please post the output of `grep -i MAKEOPTS /etc/make.conf`.

Stroller.