Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 November 2003 00:27, Adam Kropelin wrote:
>> Lately I've noticed my kernel compilations taking longer than usual.
>> Tonight I finally realized the cause... Parallel building (i.e. make
>> -jN) is no longer working for me. I traced it back and the last
>> kernel it worked in was -test5. It ceased working in -test6.
> It works for me, and for sure it works for most others. Otherwise I
> would have seen lot of complaints like yours.
> I recall one similar post, and the person in question used a homegrown
> script that caused the problems.
>
> Could you try to post:
> a) Exact command used when building the kernel.

make oldconfig
make -j2 install

(Also tried 'make -j2 bzImage' with no change in behavior observed.)

I always do this directly from the command line, no special scripts.

> b) Output of kernel compile [first 100 lines] after a make clean

Attached since I'm sure this mail client will wrap it horribly otherwise. I
enabled verbose mode for the capture since I figured you probably wanted all
the details you could get. This particular compile is for -test6, the first
non-working version.

An additional item I just noticed...I do see 2 parallel builds for the very
first part of the  session (when various items in the scripts/ directory are
being compiled).  As soon as the scripts/ directory is finished, I only see
one process and my idle cpu usage jumps to about 40% (from 0%).

I'm happy to try anything else you wish...

--Adam