[gentoo-user] stupifying slowness.

[Alan Grimes]

I'm trying to update my system after 71 days of uptime because I wanna
start moving my stuff into a newer case (current case is 11 years old...)

I started the update at aronud 3 am, it's 9 am now, the update is
technically running but it's behaving as if it is running at a CPU
priority lower than the idle process!!! It is ignoring 47.5 hardware
threads, load average is 0.41 right now because I'm typing. Console
output is normal for a build when it's running but it's not. System is
responsive and the applications that haven't started to missbehave from
being up for 71 days are still running fine. It claims that two builds
are running rn, but it is refusing to exceute code in any meaningful way.

/var/tmp/portage is empty atm, totally bizzare.

last few lines of emerge output is:

>>> Installing (97 of 277) sys-apps/findutils-4.8.0::gentoo
>>> Emerging (98 of 277) media-libs/flac-1.3.3-r1::gentoo
>>> Installing (98 of 277) media-libs/flac-1.3.3-r1::gentoo
>>> Emerging (99 of 277) sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.35.1-r1::gentoo
>>> Installing (99 of 277) sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.35.1-r1::gentoo
>>> Emerging (100 of 277) sys-devel/bison-3.7.5::gentoo
>>> Installing (100 of 277) sys-devel/bison-3.7.5::gentoo
>>> Emerging (101 of 277) www-client/lynx-2.9.0_pre6-r1::gentoo
>>> Installing (101 of 277) www-client/lynx-2.9.0_pre6-r1::gentoo
>>> Emerging (102 of 277) app-crypt/rhash-1.4.1::gentoo
>>> Installing (102 of 277) app-crypt/rhash-1.4.1::gentoo
>>> Emerging (103 of 277) app-text/po4a-0.62::gentoo
>>> Emerging (104 of 277) app-editors/nano-5.5::gentoo
>>> Emerging (105 of 277) dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.9.0::gentoo
>>> Installing (103 of 277) app-text/po4a-0.62::gentoo
>>> Jobs: 103 of 277 complete, 1 running            Load avg: 0.76,
0.58, 0.47


Now I'm in a loop where I try a pretend update, it bitches about a
package, I uninstall that package, and then spend another ten minutes
waiting for it to do a pretend update... In theory since there are only
1600 packages on the system, this process will eventually end, though it
may take several months.

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