Hi, I've changed my CFLAGS settings and merged ccache for later works. Now i'm updating my system with "emerge -e world". During merge i realize that ccache is adjusting permissions for 4 times per package; before merge, before unmerge of existing packages, after unmerge and after merge. It's something like this: --- !targe sym /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so * Adjusting permissions on ccache in /root/.ccache >>> original instance of package unmerged safely. * Adjusting permissions on ccache in /root/.ccache >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... >>> dev-libs/glib-2.6.5 merged. * Adjusting permissions on ccache in /root/.ccache >>> clean: No packages selected for removal. >>> emerge (133 of 405) x11-libs/pango-1.8.1-r1 to / * Adjusting permissions on ccache in /root/.ccache My question is about this adjusting process, each adjusting process longs about 5 to 6 seconds. For whole update this makes 135 to 162 minutes and if this really is only an permission adjusting process i thought this is just loosing time. Can you help to understand this and if there is a setting for this that i've missed would you show me? ----------------------- My make.conf file ----------------------- CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j2" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.intergenia.de http://mirror.aiya.ru/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.citkit.ru/pub/Linux/gentoo http://ftp.ankara.edu.tr/gentoo/" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="-3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext -afs -aim -qt -kde -ipv6 -nsplugin -doc -debug -spell -arts oss esd unicode gnome alsa mmx sse sse2 nls X gtk gtk2" PORT_LOGDIR=/home/portage/logs CLEAN_DELAY=0 FEATURES="ccache" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" CCACHE_DIR="/root/.ccache"