On 05/02/2013 12:27 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just built libreoffice-3.6.6.2 and it took 2 hours 10 minutes on my > 2.6 GHz quad core Athlon 2. It used to take about an hour. > > Watching the build, it became evident that the first 50 minutes or so > was taken up by several hundred mkdir operations (more precisely, mkdir > -p <long path>). Some of these mkdir's would take, perhaps, a minute to > execute. All the while, top showed make taking 100% of one core. > > There seems to be something suboptimal here. Has anybody else seen > this, or does anybody have any ideas how to fix the problem?
Long delays suggest a timeout of some sort. First thing I'd look at is the filesystem underneath, and the disk underneath that. Second thing I'd look at is to see if permissions checks might be bouncing through something like kerberos, samba or ldap. Do you have any single-signon things configured on that machine?
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