Well, that obviously depends a lot on the speed of the computer.
Well yes;) Ballpark figure was all i was after, the computer is a p4 3.4ghz.
For a single toolset to test with, 10-12h are definitely sufficient, even on a slightly outdated CPU and with rebuilding everything from scratch. Don't run the tests with less than .5 GB of RAM.
Got a gb so that would be fine.
I don't think anybody runs tests using distcc. However, I know at least Boost 1.31.0 can be built using distcc and with -j4 (someone told > me that just yesterday on IRC). IIUC, there's nothing that should prevent distcc from working fine with Boost.Build (of course, you need sufficiently similar boxes). In fact, it would be a good thing to test with distcc.
Good to hear. cheers Martin