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Re: buildd machines?



Hi,

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Brad Boyer wrote:

> On this note of buildd capability, does anyone know for sure what the
> main bottleneck is on the compiler for m68k? If it's disk-bound, the
> 840AV (and 660AV) have the possibility of a big boost in this area in
> the future. We currently aren't using the DMA hardware for anything
> but ethernet on these models, but we could get SCSI using DMA on them
> with some extra development effort. It's currently a bit down my todo
> list, but I could move it up to third or maybe second if people think
> it will make a difference.

If we would start using distcc, then the build would be largely disk 
bound. In a normal compilation cpu and memory is usually more important.

bye, Roman



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