Something for nothing ?
First, if you don't happen to have spare computers lying around that you are not using and feeling pretty guilty about, this is prolly not the right oil for your snake. Also, please note the OpenSUSE is not that relevant: something similar should work nicely on Fedora too.Caveats
Icecream is
a sharp tool, it lets other people build software on your machine,
needs you turn off your firewall, and it requires a working
LAN. The wiki page is your friend. [update]: Martin Vidner
points out that if you don't like to disable your firewall,
it's easy to use some built-in rules; as root:
echo 'FW_CONFIGURATIONS_EXT += " iceccd icecream-scheduler"' >> /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2
/sbin/SuSEfirewall2 start
Invest one minute to make your builds fly
sudo zypper in -y icecream icecream-monitor # install the package < 5 secs
sudo /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 icecream on # enable icecream startup on boot
Next - decide if this is going to be the scheduler machine ?
if so:
sudo sed -i 's/ICECREAM_RUN_SCHEDULER="no"/ICECREAM_RUN_SCHEDULER="yes"/' /etc/sysconfig/icecream
Then - start the daemon everywhere:
sudo /etc/init.d/icecream start # start the daemon ...
Finally - fix your path:
export PATH="/opt/icecream/bin:$PATH";
make -j8 # and run a parallel make
Non-griping
But I use different distros & versions on each machine - icecream pushes enough of your compiler and toolchain across to the remote host that this shouldn't be a problem.
But I like to turn the scheduler off / unplug my laptop - fine, icecream will handle your use-case perfectly: don't fret.
My mega-server is a 64bit machine, but my laptop is 32bit - fine, icecream will handle your use-case perfectly by default. It can even do cross compiling with more tweaking.
How do I know it's working - for those burned by the
psychosomatic Gentoo experience, running 'icemon' can help overcome your
fears (albeit at the cost of too much of your CPU):
(Thanks to Jonny Lamb / Collabora, or see an animated version).
But I run SLED ... - package here.
