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On Sep 27, 2011 8:47 AM, "Harry Putnam" <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> > What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See |
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> > what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is |
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> > running - is it thrashing? What speed are you getting for the hard disk |
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> > from hdparm -t -T? |
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> Top shows CC taking about 50% or in that vacinity... nothing else of |
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> note is running. But man I've been at this for 3 days, or so. |
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> Created at least 6 different kernels and none will get me |
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> booted... either I get a panic and root cannot be mounted, or the |
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> screen goes black shortly after grub screen... and nothing more |
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> happens. |
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> I've tried 3.0.4 and backed up to 2.6.39* ... all this on a machine |
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> that has run gentoo for several yrs. And I'm not a complete greenhorn |
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> either. |
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> There must be some other source of problem I don't know about is all I |
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> can think... |
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> I'm on the verge of copying an OS off the livecd and using that |
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> kernel... this is just ridiculous. |
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Weird. |
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A thought occurred: could there be failing hardware? Start with testing your |
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RAM, then your hard disk, then everything else. |
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Rgds, |
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