On Feb 18, 2008 12:21 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> After a considerabale amount of time (e.g. 15 seconds), something is suddenly > >>> freed, and the compilation completes successfully. > >> It's waiting on I/O. This delay is either network related or a disk is > >> going to die. It almost certainly isn't a gcc bug. > You need to know whether it's waiting for disk or network; I can't help you > with that. Then you need to think about smartd reporting or somesuch. > Oh, and strace. It's a simple compilation of a local file. No network involved. Assuming there's a disk problem I would expect other system anomalities, but I haven't encountered any other probelm.. strace shows that gcc hangs while doing waitpid. Have you ever heard of such gcc hanging ? Do you have any suggestion as to what can I check ? Thank you for the help! Sunzir > > Andrew. >
