[Gllug] [OT] Appreciation

[John Winters]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> John Winters wrote:
>> Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:14 +0000, Juergen Schinker wrote:
>>>>> And what about the other couple of hundred servers?
>>>>>
>>>> once you know the deal your getting faster...
>>>>
>>>> some good trained can do it in approx. one hour
>>>
>>> Errm, you're saying you can deploy a few hundred gentoo "servers" in an
>>> hour?
>>
>> Well presumably if you have several hundred servers you can use distcc 
>> and have it done in no time.
>>
> 
> you'd have 1 machine done in no time using distcc on 100 servers, what 
> about the other 99 ?
> 
> rinse, repeat ?

Ah no - that's the advantage of parallel computing - you can do them all 
simultaneously rather than one after another.

> distcc itself needs bootstrapping and a fairly functional toolchain on 
> each box. I wonder how long gcc-4 along with compat-gcc-32 will take ( 
> hey, how long would just the *tests* take on a few hundred machines )

Presumably you could use distcc to speed up the tests too.

John

(Would it help if I put smileys on the end of these suggestions?)
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