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Hi, Florian. |
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On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:12:51PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 02.05.2013 18:27, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: |
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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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> I'm seeing the same behavior here. |
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> libreoffice-3.6.6.2 on a mostly stable system. |
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> btrfs on lvm on dmcrypt on a hybrid disk. |
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> kernel 3.7.5 pf-sources. |
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> I don't think is has anything to do with the file system or hardware. |
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> make is eating 200M memory and uses 100% CPU, not mkdir. I guess the |
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> script is just buggy. |
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Thanks for the report. I think the build script is buggy, too. There is |
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something about our systems, possibly some use flag, which is driving |
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make crazy. |
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There doesn't appear to be any action in emerge which unpacks the build |
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files (or even the entire source) of a package for perusal. This is a |
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shame. |
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At this point, I have to ask myself whether spending time trying to debug |
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it (or even to report the bug usefully) is better than simply tolerating |
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the long build time. It doesn't seem like there'll be an easy solution. |
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> Regards, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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