From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:11:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2NnSNND7U0ZsUsAeBMetDFyjDRhjZMtOs+LBkn_Ht7aQw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGXd-P+ABbfiCU23qJALmxMmsrqDjhqRqG+e+RwzL7G2tw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>
> On Sep 27, 2011 8:47 AM, "Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>>
>> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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 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 screen... and nothing more
>> happens.
>>
>> I've tried 3.0.4 and backed up to 2.6.39* ... all this on a machine
>> that has run gentoo for several yrs. And I'm not a complete greenhorn
>> either.
>>
>> There must be some other source of problem I don't know about is all I
>> can think...
>>
>> I'm on the verge of copying an OS off the livecd and using that
>> kernel... this is just ridiculous.
>>
>
> Weird.
>
> A thought occurred: could there be failing hardware? Start with testing your
> RAM, then your hard disk, then everything else.
With speed that slow it reminds me of CPU cache gone bad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-27 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 15:59 [gentoo-user] Kernel compiles ... monitoring Harry
2011-09-26 19:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry
2011-09-26 20:47 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-09-26 21:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2011-09-26 23:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry
2011-09-27 0:06 ` Brennan Shacklett
2011-09-27 0:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-27 1:42 ` Harry Putnam
2011-09-27 1:59 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-27 2:01 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-09-27 3:11 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-09-27 11:43 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-09-27 0:14 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-09-27 0:15 ` Paul Hartman
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