On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:08 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > My very old and slow ~amd64 machine took 3 hours and 45-minutes to > compile systemd-226 today. I was curious to know why it was taking so > long to finish, so I used 'top' to see what was happening. > > Turns out that two instances of 'sh' were each using 15-30% of CPU for > a total of 30-60% (the machine has two CPUs). cc1 never even showed up > in 'top' although the compiler was obviously compiling code because the > build did eventually finish. > > I tried the same on a faster 4-core machine and I could see much the > same thing happening during the systemd build. > > Can anyone else reproduce what I'm seeing? Is this 'normal'?
I have noticed that systemd takes quite a long time to build, but I have never spent any effort looking into exactly why. If you figure anything out, please file a bug with your findings.
