Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just built libreoffice-3.6.6.2 and it took 2 hours 10 minutes on my > 2.6 GHz quad core Athlon 2. It used to take about an hour. > > Watching the build, it became evident that the first 50 minutes or so > was taken up by several hundred mkdir operations (more precisely, mkdir > -p <long path>). Some of these mkdir's would take, perhaps, a minute to > execute. All the while, top showed make taking 100% of one core. > > There seems to be something suboptimal here. Has anybody else seen > this, or does anybody have any ideas how to fix the problem?
Just to test the file system, you may copy a large tree with "cp -l" within the same partition, since it creates only hard links, no data is actually copied. - Jörg
