Seems that I'm not the only one with this problem. There are several fixes which collectively seem to put things back to normal. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99564
This is really nasty. Had it happened on one of my servers, one of which runs gentoo, it would have cost me customers! Thus spake Lindsay Haisley on Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:09:01PM CDT > I just did an emerge -uD world and now have an almost unusable desktop, so > my small business on which I depend is out of business until I get this > fixed! > > I started the emerge and went out for a while and when I came back > (mozilla-thunderbird was building, package 21 of about 48) I noted that > things were running _VERY_ slowly. Some commands executed quickly, but > some, such a 'sudo su - root' took several minutes to execute. The emerge > of Thunderbird was taking so long that I aborted it and rebooted the system. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) | -- [email protected] mailing list
