On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Pandu Poluan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2011 8:47 AM, "Harry Putnam" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See >> > what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is >> > running - is it thrashing? What speed are you getting for the hard disk >> > from hdparm -t -T? >> >> Top shows CC taking about 50% or in that vacinity... nothing else of >> note is running. But man I've been at this for 3 days, or so. >> Created at least 6 different kernels and none will get me >> booted... either I get a panic and root cannot be mounted, or the >> screen goes black shortly after grub screen... and nothing more >> happens. >> >> I've tried 3.0.4 and backed up to 2.6.39* ... all this on a machine >> that has run gentoo for several yrs. And I'm not a complete greenhorn >> either. >> >> There must be some other source of problem I don't know about is all I >> can think... >> >> I'm on the verge of copying an OS off the livecd and using that >> kernel... this is just ridiculous. >> > > Weird. > > A thought occurred: could there be failing hardware? Start with testing your > RAM, then your hard disk, then everything else.
With speed that slow it reminds me of CPU cache gone bad
