>
> Does that info help?
>
>
My reason for asking is that i'm seeing this across multiple systems, 2
AMD, 1 Intel, who's configuration hasn't really changed and while there is
some variance there has been a step change late December / early January.
Another example
Sat Nov 26 14:34:50 2022 >>> sys-apps/systemd-252.2
merge time: 2 minutes and 19 seconds.
Sat Dec 10 20:59:29 2022 >>> sys-apps/systemd-252.3
merge time: 1 minute and 54 seconds.
Wed Dec 14 13:56:52 2022 >>> sys-apps/systemd-252.3
merge time: 2 minutes and 56 seconds.
Wed Dec 21 20:08:36 2022 >>> sys-apps/systemd-252.4
merge time: 3 minutes and 7 seconds.
Tue Jan 3 22:29:43 2023 >>> sys-apps/systemd-252.4
merge time: 12 minutes and 42 seconds.
Thu Jan 12 14:56:32 2023 >>> sys-apps/systemd-252.4-r1
merge time: 22 minutes and 12 seconds.
Sat Jan 21 12:00:06 2023 >>> sys-apps/systemd-252.4-r1
merge time: 12 minutes and 3 seconds.
Mon Jan 30 15:41:44 2023 >>> sys-apps/systemd-252.5
merge time: 21 minutes and 45 seconds.
Fri Feb 17 21:18:21 2023 >>> sys-apps/systemd-252.6
merge time: 22 minutes and 18 seconds.
