Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-27 Thread Jonas de Buhr
>Top shows CC taking about 50% or in that vacinity... nothing else of >note is running. But man I've been at this for 3 days, or so. >Created at least 6 different kernels and none will get me >booted... either I get a panic and root cannot be mounted, or the >screen goes black shortly after grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2011 8:47 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote: >> >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> >> > What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See >> > what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is >> > running - i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 27, 2011 8:47 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote: > > Alan McKinnon writes: > > > What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See > > what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is > > running - is it thrashing? What speed are you getting for the hard disk > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > >> What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See >> what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is >> running - is it thrashing? What speed are you getting for the hard disk >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See > what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is > running - is it thrashing? What speed are you getting for the hard disk > from hdparm -t -T? Top shows CC taking about 50% or in that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Harry wrote: > Sounds like there is no real way unless as you say.  I've been > wrestling with kernel build after kernel build trying to get a new > install booted.  Many failures led me to finally resorting to > genkernel... but you may know already that is a full

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/26/11 19:04, Harry wrote: > > Sounds like there is no real way unless as you say. I've been > wrestling with kernel build after kernel build trying to get a new > install booted. Many failures led me to finally resorting to > genkernel... but you may know already that is a full day of comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:04:24 -0500 Harry wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Harry wrote: > >> How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is?  I can see the > >> modules being > >> built in /var/log/genkernel.log > >>   (Aside: Please, no hysteria about u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Brennan Shacklett
>Is this pretty normal? I would say no. I have a p3 system with 512 MB of ram that can make a .config in less than a minute... and the kernel takes about an hour.

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Harry
Paul Hartman writes: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Harry wrote: >> How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is?  I can see the >> modules being >> built in /var/log/genkernel.log >>   (Aside: Please, no hysteria about using genkernel) >> >> But I'd like to know of some way to guesst

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Jonas de Buhr
hi harry! don't take my word for it, but i don't think there is an easy solution to this :) cmake creates makefiles which show the percentage completed in a build step. maybe you can look into how it does that and apply that to the kernel? /jonas >Harry gmail.com> writes: > >> >> How can one

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Harry
Harry gmail.com> writes: > > How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is? I can see the > modules being built in /var/log/genkernel.log >(Aside: Please, no hysteria about using genkernel) > > But I'd like to know of some way to guesstimate how much of the process is > completed.