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