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authorKamal Mostafa <kamal@whence.com>2012-04-04 20:28:47 +0000
committerKamal Mostafa <kamal@whence.com>2012-04-04 20:28:47 +0000
commit3c90113fc3411e4baa18aab9d32b2dea36a15ae7 (patch)
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Fix for distcc issue 103 <http://code.google.com/p/distcc/issues/detail?id=103>:
hardcoded 60 second backoff period should be tunable Makes the backoff behavior tunable via a new env var DISTCC_BACKOFF_PERIOD. The default backoff remains set for 60 seconds.
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@@ -762,6 +762,12 @@ variable is set to 0 then fallbacks are disabled and those
compilations will simply fail. Note that this does not affect jobs
which must always be local such as linking.
.TP
+.B "DISTCC_BACKOFF_PERIOD"
+Specifies how long (in seconds) distcc will avoid trying to use a
+particular compilation server after that server yields a compile
+failure. By default set to 60 seconds. To disable the backoff
+behavior altogether, set this to 0.
+.TP
.B "DISTCC_IO_TIMEOUT"
Specifies how long (in seconds) distcc will wait before deciding a
distributed job has timed out. If a distributed job is expected to