I'm in the process of working on one of my projects, and the requirement came up to download a fairly large file (4GB). Since I only receive ~20GB/month at my house, I decided to just use my server in the U.S. The next requirement came about needing to compile Mapnik, which I had intended to do on the server at some point anyways, yet I ran into memory constraints.
Good old distcc comes to the rescue. I don't need to use distcc that often, yet when I do, it is very handy. However, I always forget to set g++ to use distcc as well. So, for when I forget next time...
DISTCC_HOSTS='home' ./configure make CC=distcc CXX=distcc
Maybe one of these days I'll write a more in depth tutorial for installing distcc, yet until then, you can peruse the notes I left on my VPS provider's wiki.
This entry is from my tech blog and was written on Jan. 1, 2008. It's been tagged with Tips, Tricks and Hacks. There have been 4 comments so far.