[Adium-devl] Hardware plans

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Aug 22, 2007, at 11:57 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> The questions, then, are:
>
> 1. Could distcc on a cluster of minis make up the loss of clock  
> cycles with pure parallelism, being able to compile 12 source files  
> at a time rather than four?
>
> (Keeping in mind, of course, that it will take some fraction of a  
> second longer for each compiler process to finish, and that that  
> fraction must currently be multiplied by 608—this being the sum of  
> 500, which is the number of .m files in the Adium project, and 108,  
> which is the number of .m files in the AIUtilities project.)
>
> 2. Would 2 GiB of RAM be enough for each distributed-build node?

I don't know the answers (though my experiences with distcc have  
never left me particularly impressed) but add two more questions:
3. For purposes other than building, is having multiple computers  
more or less useful than having a single, powerful one?
4. Is managing multiple systems worth the added management burden  
versus a single system?

-Evan
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