distcc benchmark results

distcc benchmark result

Here is some cool distcc benchmark result.

The results are given in seconds reported by distcc-2.18.3/bench/Build.py, and averaged over 5 run(s). Smaller is better.

bench	local run1	ccache run1	ccache run2	ccache+distcc run1	ccache+distcc run2	distcc-j4 run1	distcc-j8 run1
hello-2.1.1	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.5
make-3.80	5.7	5.8	1.8	1.4	1.6	2.3	2.0
glib-2.0.7	31.6	30.2	14.7	13.4	10.7	13.9	12.1
gdb-5.3	54.2	101.4	37.6	39.2	26.3	40.7	32.0
httpd-2.0.43	77.5	85.5	43.0	61.7	43.6	54.9	54.5
samba-2.2.7	90.1	103.1	34.7	56.1	25.8	71.0	45.2
linux-2.5.51	260.9	259.0	85.5	77.1	50.5	105.5	66.3
samba-3.0.7	291.7	318.3	123.6	150.1	72.0	235.9	149.8
wine-0.9.3	1320.0	1096.6	470.4	491.1	348.6	679.0	481.8
wine-0.9.4	1335.0	1446.0	534.7	582.9	393.8	687.1	486.5

Normalized results against local build (each column is divided by local run1). Smaller is better.

bench	local run1	ccache run1	ccache run2	ccache+distcc run1	ccache+distcc run2	distcc-j4 run1	distcc-j8 run1
hello-2.1.1	1.00	1.67	0.67	1.00	1.00	1.67	1.67
make-3.80	1.00	1.02	0.32	0.25	0.28	0.40	0.35
glib-2.0.7	1.00	0.96	0.47	0.42	0.34	0.44	0.38
gdb-5.3	1.00	1.87	0.69	0.72	0.49	0.75	0.59
httpd-2.0.43	1.00	1.10	0.55	0.80	0.56	0.71	0.70
samba-2.2.7	1.00	1.14	0.39	0.62	0.29	0.79	0.50
linux-2.5.51	1.00	0.99	0.33	0.30	0.19	0.40	0.25
samba-3.0.7	1.00	1.09	0.42	0.51	0.25	0.81	0.51
wine-0.9.3	1.00	0.83	0.36	0.37	0.26	0.51	0.36
wine-0.9.4	1.00	1.08	0.40	0.44	0.29	0.51	0.36

Here is our experiment setup

distcc source tree: distcc-2.18.3
my local workstation: Pentium 4, 3.40GHz, MemTotal: 3103 MB, Linux kernel 2.4.22
distcc server clusters: 8 servers, 2 HyperThreading CPUs each, Intel(R) Xeon(TM), 2.60GHz, MemTotal: 2061 MB, Linux kernel 2.4.18
gcc-2.95.3 is used to build distccd
gcc-3.2.2 is used to build benchmarks on distcc servers.
ccache version 2.2

Here is the script patch we created to run the experiment distcc_script.html