[gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?

[gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?

[Michael Sullivan]

Is this normal?:

2899 root      17   0  131m  35m  224 R  0.3 59.2  11:03.55 cc1

I took this from a `top` listing.  I'm trying to emerge
sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box.  The merge hasn't moved much in
the last twenty hours, and, if I'm reading this right, this single
compile has been running for eleven hours???  Is this a problem?  Should
I stop it?

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:42:01 -0600 Michael Sullivan
<michael@espersunited.com> wrote:

> Is this normal?:
> 
> 2899 root      17   0  131m  35m  224 R  0.3 59.2  11:03.55 cc1
> 
> I took this from a `top` listing.  I'm trying to emerge
> sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box.  The merge hasn't moved much
> in the last twenty hours, and, if I'm reading this right, this single
> compile has been running for eleven hours???

Should rather be 11 minutes. But that's probably (can't the the top
headers, but assuming default config) CPU time, so it might be running
for longer.

> Is this a problem?

You'll never know... But the process is "running". You can use "strace
-p <PID>" to get a first impression what the process is doing/waiting
for. If you don't care, just kill it, abort the emerge, check system
and start over.

-hwh
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?

[Kent Fredric]

On 1/12/07, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> Is this normal?:
>
> 2899 root      17   0  131m  35m  224 R  0.3 59.2  11:03.55 cc1
>
> I took this from a `top` listing.  I'm trying to emerge
> sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box.  The merge hasn't moved much in

You may find
 sys-process/htop
more useful for everyday tasks.


But if you have a problem with real memory allocation somewhere and
its working on everything in swap space, you might get things a little
slower than you expect.

Apart from that situation, you may have had gcc die and you may want
to restart it.

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