That's what gcc does. Compiling is a very CPU-intensive task. If you have a relatively "small" slice of a physical CPU, it can take quite a while to get something compiled. For example, it took me about a month to get OpenOffice compiled on one of my small test systems.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone Nagios? -snip 'Top' told me that gcc was hogging the CPU. The 'make' went on for a while. I need to revisit the scene. Good that you have been able to build on SLES 8.
