The subject is fairly descriptive. Often -- but not always -- an emerge
will render my system unusable. At a PORTAGE_NICENESS of 3, and fairly
standard MAKEOPTS of "-j2" (on a single-core system), I'm ... well,
rather surprised, confused, and very frustrated. I also can't be very
specific, because I have no real idea of what's causing this, and the
symptoms are very general: The system becomes unresponsive, the mouse
will move but with enough of a lag that physically moving it may not
cause a cursor movement for the next 30 seconds or so, clicking a
taskbar window may not have an effect at all; sometimes I can't even ssh
into the system from my other computer (to kill the emerge) because it's
slow enough that the ssh daemon times out my login attempt. This never
used to happen, I'm not aware of using any weird settings, I recently
rebuilt my entire system with conservative CFLAGS (-march=athlon64 -O2
-pipe -fomit-frame-pointer), and I have an x86 (pentium-m) system with
very, very similar settings that exhibits no such problems.
Any hints, thoughts, or suggestions would be very much welcomed. System
info follows.
--
Petter Häggholm
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dreadfort ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2_pre1-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1,
glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:30:09 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6
dev-util/confcache: [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler
/etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo
http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo
http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/
http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/gentoo/
http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org";
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats
--timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local'
--exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage
/usr/portage/local/layman/liferea_overlay
/usr/portage/local/layman/petter-haggholm"
SYNC="rsync://castleblack/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 7zip X a52 aac acpi aim alsa amr apache2 artworkextra avahi
bash-completion beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts branding bzip2 cairo
cdinstall cdrom cli crypt cscope cups cursors daap dba dbus divx
dlloader doc dri dts dvd dvi editor eds elibc_glibc encode fam ffmpeg
firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gcj gdbm gdm gif gimp gimpprint
glibc-omitfp glitz gmail gmailtimestamps gmedia gnome gnome-print
gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gstreamer010 gtalk gtk gtk2 gtkhtml
hal howl-compat icons icq id3 imlib initng_plugins_also
initng_plugins_bash_launcher initng_plugins_chdir initng_plugins_chroot
initng_plugins_conflict initng_plugins_cpout initng_plugins_critical
initng_plugins_cron initng_plugins_daemon initng_plugins_dev
initng_plugins_dllaunch initng_plugins_envparser initng_plugins_find
initng_plugins_fstat initng_plugins_history initng_plugins_idleprobe
initng_plugins_initctl initng_plugins_interactive initng_plugins_iparser
initng_plugins_last initng_plugins_limit initng_plugins_logfile
initng_plugins_netprobe initng_plugins_ngc4 initng_plugins_pause
initng_plugins_pidfile initng_plugins_reload initng_plugins_renice
initng_plugins_rlparser initng_plugins_simple_launcher
initng_plugins_stcmd initng_plugins_stdout initng_plugins_suid
initng_plugins_syncron initng_plugins_syslog initng_plugins_unneeded
input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipod
iproute2 ipv6 isdnlog jabber jpeg kdeenablefinal kernel_linux libg++
libnotify linguas_en lm_sensors logitech-mouse logrotate mad math
mdnsresponder-compat mikmod modplug mono mozcalendar mozdevelop
moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg msn musepack
music musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin
nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds
pppd python qt-static quicktime readline realmedia reflection reiserfs
rhythmbox rtc sdl session sid spl ssl stencil-buffer stream svg t1lib
tcpd tetex textures themes theora threads thunderbird tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales vcd
video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa videos vim vim-with-x vorbis wma
wma123 wmf wmp xchat xchatdccserver xcomposite xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc
yahoo zlib"
Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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