On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 18:01, Scott Taylor wrote:
> 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,
This is a Pentium M 1.4 GHz w/ 512MB memory.
Top runs at < 1 load average. (or look at signature)
> 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
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 1164 MB in 2.00 seconds = 580.64 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 94 MB in 3.05 seconds = 30.83 MB/sec
> or just too many applications reading data off the disk. Look
> there also for swap usage,
free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 503 499 3 0 36
187
-/+ buffers/cache: 275 227
Swap: 517 101 415
> it should be nearly zero most of the time. Or
> perhaps your hard drive is not using dma (check with "hdparm
> -d /dev/hda").
using_dma = 1 (on)
> 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?
Nothing that is directly visible
>
> 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.
This was a system brought up from stage 1 install.
I can't provide much details as I'm not sure where to begin with
details.
genlop -t k3b
* app-cdr/k3b
Sat Oct 2 15:53:39 2004 --> app-cdr/k3b-0.11.12-r1
merge time: 26 minutes and 43 seconds.
Fri Oct 22 01:07:43 2004 --> app-cdr/k3b-0.11.17
merge time: 27 minutes and 55 seconds.
Tue Jan 18 10:54:26 2005 --> app-cdr/k3b-0.11.18
merge time: 53 minutes and 31 seconds.
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Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz
98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
Neuromancer 13:55:24 up 4:35, 7 users,
load average: 0.76, 0.75, 0.48
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