Icecream

Icecream is a software suite that allows you to build up a compile cluster. The goal is to speed up compiling by distributing the jobs over several computers. To do that, you need one compile-driver (the scheduler) and one or more daemons. As a start, have a daemon running on the computers earth and moon and run the scheduler on earth. Every daemon can trigger a cluster compilation, as well earth as moon.

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Run it

On every slave, start the daemon:

export PATH=/opt/icecream/bin:$PATH
iceccd -d

And make sure your firewall is stopped:

rcSuSEfirewall2 stop

On your driver, start the scheduler:

export PATH=/opt/icecream/bin:$PATH
scheduler -d

You can now start building e.g. with 8 compile jobs distributed over the nodes:

make -j8 CC=/usr/bin/icecc

The monitor

There is a graphical monitor available that shows which computer is compiling what:

To see it, use the command

icemon

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How to compile icemon

svn co https://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/devtools
cd devtools
cmake .
cd icemon
make && make install

See also

• http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream
• http://websvn.kde.org:80/trunk/icecream/ - icecream source
• http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/devtools/icemon/ - icemon source