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On 05/02/2013 12:27 PM, 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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Long delays suggest a timeout of some sort. |
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First thing I'd look at is the filesystem underneath, and the disk |
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underneath that. |
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Second thing I'd look at is to see if permissions checks might be |
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bouncing through something like kerberos, samba or ldap. Do you have any |
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single-signon things configured on that machine? |
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