Slow install phase on some ebuilds.

CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3628

Some ebuilf in install phase are VERY slow.
It so happens swap file is obviously involved in the slow down.
SEEMS like some files to be installed are stored in swap instead of $PORTAGE_TMPDIR, which is on disk.

Couple of minutes lost in the process...

Any thought on the subject?

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.
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Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1395 Location: Germany

I assume you know what swap is and what it is supposed to do, right? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap

Run the build and whatch RAM and swap usage, it should tell you what is going on.
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sublogic · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:05 pm Post subject:

I would add: run vmstat 1 --unit m in a terminal window to confirm that swap is involved. The si and so columns are swap. bi and bo are disk I/O, but not swap.

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