On Feb 18, 2008 12:53 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sunzir Deepur wrote: > > 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 ? > > Run gcc under strace -f. Great idea (wasn't aware of the -f switch) - thank you (i now have to wait for the problem to raise its ugly head again, it doesn't always happen) > > Andrew. >
