[webkit-dev] Building WebKit's GTK+ back-end using distcc timing

[Ilyes Gouta]

Hi,

I think that this waning being displayed at the beginning of the
build, is related to the distcc-based build slowdown:

make[1]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode.

-Ilyes

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> additional reasons why it is taking so much time now, but I would point
>>> to pre-processing and linking as possible causes for the distcc master
>>> now doing more work.
>
> I would rule out the linking phase as being the bottleneck: this is
> happening at the end of the process. I've eventually timed it and it's
> not the one to blame. From observation I can tell that {preprocessing,
> compiling C++ code, other Makefile non-visible actions} is what's
> taking more time to process. And the result is very drastic: the
> distcc master (the client which initiated the build) is failing to
> load properly the distcc slaves, which are very capable machines, with
> code to build -> these aren't properly exploited anymore.
>
>> Especially when you do not have enough memory and the system start swapping.
>> Have you checked that?
>
> Well, distcc master itself isn't participating in the build, so no
> compiler invocation and stuff... DISTCC_HOSTS contains only the remote
> machines, not the localhost. No, I won't say that it's due to RAM
> shortage and swapping. It's more like CPU bound than memory.
>
> I thought that preprocessing and the # of source code files won't be
> the reason, because even with the
> pre-9161f3277b15aae8d15a929d5362e28cad7e01c0 (almost 1 year ago) code
> base, preprocessing existed and the count of WebKit's source files is
> already important. Then it must be the build system (configure.ac, the
> .m4 macros and Makefiles) that has changed and caused this slowdown.
>
> I'm still puzzled! :)
>
> -Ilyes
>
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