ElectricAccelerator vs distcc – samba reloaded In an earlier post I compared the performance of ElectricAcclerator and distcc by building samba using each tool in turn on the same cluster. In that test I found that Accelerator bested distcc at suitably high levels of parallelism, but that distcc narrowly beat Accelerator at lower levels of [Read More →]

In this continuation of the ElectricAccelerator vs. distcc battle royale, I’ll compare the performance of these two tools when building samba, a suite of tools that provide file and print services to Windows clients from Unix-like servers. Samba is a particularly interesting package for this comparison because distcc was originally created in order to accelerate [Read More →]

Previously we have compared the performance of ElectricAccelerator and distcc when building the Linux 2.6 kernel. In what I hope will be the first of several followups, I will repeat the experiment with different software packages, to determine whether that result was a one-off, or whether ElectricAccelerator really is consistently better performing than distcc. In [Read More →]

There are lots of different parallel, distributed build systems in the world besides ElectricAccelerator. In this post, I’m going to share my recent experience with one popular alternative, GNU make combined with distcc.