compile farm distro

[Apollo]

The time it takes to compile doesn't bother me at all, especially with the
speed everything runs afterwards.  My only problem is I need it for work on
Monday which causes me to have to abort it.  As far as the laptop goes its
an AMD K6 550 with 196Mb RAM with a newer hard drive.  I know I didn't add
the 'hdparm -d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 /dev/hdX' command running at startup so
that is working against me.  I've waked my Gentoo install enough I'm just
going to reinstall tonight or tomorrow then emerge kde over the weekend.
I've read a little on getting distcc running in cygwin but I'm afraid its
out of my league.  Most of the docs seem geared for someone that knows what
'..and all the other build tools..' is, which I have no idea.
If for some reason I do get it all optimized and ready to 'emerge kde' and
it still takes 30+ hours, could I still use your compile farm?

Thanks,
    David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Kris Bodenheimer
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:53 AM
> To: Jonathan Hutchins
> Cc: David Holland; kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: compile farm distro
>
> HMM, ok, that may be true, BUT, there are some high quality solutions to
> the issue that are easy to implement.  Having a functional compile farm
> takes a long time to construct.  Which, is why I am happy to lend mine
> to the cause.  I can get a gentoo build done in a few hours, just by
> using distcc, and enough computers.
>
> Now, the catch is, is that on a laptop, there are TONS of other limiting
> factors, not the least of which are the probably horrible hard drive
> spinning away, low memmory, slow memory access... etc. etc. etc.  The
> list goes on.  30 hours is a REALLY long time, I would bet there is
> something else wack.  I would say you should try to get ide DMA working
> using hdparm, it may save you a TON of time.  Kris
>