On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 16:47 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > What is happening? It can hang for like 10 minutes at that very line.
> > > ccache is enabled.
> Just look at these emerge times
> Thu Sep 30 03:36:00 2004 --> sys-apps/gawk-3.1.3-r1
> merge time: 57 seconds.
>
> Mon Jan 17 16:02:00 2005 --> sys-apps/gawk-3.1.3-r2
> merge time: 7 minutes and 32 seconds.
You still haven't given any information that even hints at a possible
cause. How much memory does your system have? If you have only 64MB but
are running xorg+gnome+whatever at the same time as building, it'll be a
lot slower than when there was nothing but a text console running. What
is your load average? Run the program "top" in another terminal while
compiling on the same box. If the load average is much above 2.0, then
you've got something clogging up the system and it's likely to be right
at the top of the list of processes there. If the "wa" item (10.3% in
the example below) is very large, then you may have a bad/slow hard
drive or just too many applications reading data off the disk. Look
there also for swap usage, it should be nearly zero most of the time. Or
perhaps your hard drive is not using dma (check with "hdparm
-d /dev/hda"). Look through your entire "dmesg" output. Are there any
warnings about some device not being recognized or a feature being
disabled or read errors or anything like that?
Cpu(s): 37.3% us, 4.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 48.0% id, 10.3% wa, 0.2% hi,
0.0% si
Those are all total guesses though. Your questions have been missing any
real useful details for troubleshooting. One other thing though, if you
installed your system from a stage3 tarball or from the GRP disc, the
very first compile time shown by splat (for the base system packages
anyway) is how long it took to get compiled on gentoo's buildserver
which is probably a much faster machine than what you are running. So,
the compile time of the earliest version of packages would in that case
not be valid for saying if your machine is slower than it had been
before.
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