compile stuck in loop?

[cj171]

yeah, dumbest sounding question ive ever posted..oh well...
anyways, i have a 266 or 300 mhz box and its runnin gentoo..anyways, i told it to emerge something, and it had a bunch of dependencies to get, so it got qt, which took possibly almost a day, but then its been workin on PyQt for the past day, and PyQt is only just over 700k...wierd that itd be taking that long...it looks like its compiling something called hugeqt0.cpp....its been clicking like mad for over 16 hours now....any idea what that is and if it really should be taking this long? im afraid the poor old thing's gonna melt itself..

[Tyr_7BE]

Well...it's hugeqt

Is it spending 16 hours compiling one single file? Because that's not right. I know it takes a good 24 hours to emerge kde, and probably the same amount of time to emerge openoffice, but I've never heard of that kind of time spent on 1 file. If that's the case then something's probably wrong.

[pbharris]

hello,
wowie....
is the compilier still busy? what is its CPU usage?

[cj171]

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.1  1464  104 ?        S    May06   0:11 init [3]
root         2  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SWN  May06   0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root         3  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW<  May06   0:02 [events/0]
root         4  0.1  0.0     0    0 ?        SW<  May06   3:05 [kblockd/0]
root         5  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   May06   0:00 [khubd]
root         6  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   May06   0:05 [kapmd]
root        10  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW<  May06   0:00 [aio/0]
root         9  0.5  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   May06  13:07 [kswapd0]
root        11  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   May06   0:00 [kseriod]
root        12  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW<  May06   0:00 [reiserfs/0]
root       124  0.0  0.1  1828   84 ?        S    May06   0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev
root      5025  0.0  0.3  1640  196 ?        S    May06   0:02 /usr/sbin/syslogd
root      5027  0.0  0.0  1596   44 ?        S    May06   0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -
root      5051  0.0  0.3  1776  196 ?        S    May06   0:15 /usr/sbin/crond
root      5113  0.0  0.0  1484   56 ?        S    May06   0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd eth0
root      5120  0.0  0.1  5640   76 ?        S    May06   0:24 /usr/bin/perl -w
nobody    5228  0.0  0.3  4048  216 ?        S    May06   0:22 proftpd: (accepti
root      5260  0.0  0.1  7152   60 ?        S    May06   0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd
root      5262  0.0  0.8  3772  516 ?        S    May06   0:48 /usr/sbin/nmbd
root      5294  0.0  0.3  3376  232 ?        S    May06   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root      5307  0.0  0.0  2284   52 ?        S    May06   0:00 login -- root
root      5310  0.0  0.0  1504   48 tty4     S    May06   0:00 /sbin/agetty 3840
root      5311  0.0  0.0  1504   48 tty5     S    May06   0:00 /sbin/agetty 3840
root      5312  0.0  0.0  1504   48 tty6     S    May06   0:00 /sbin/agetty 3840
root      5313  0.0  0.0  2288   52 tty1     S    May06   0:00 -bash
root      5317  0.0  0.0 11376   56 tty1     S    May06   0:25 /usr/bin/python -
root     11332  0.0  0.0  1504   48 tty3     S    May06   0:00 /sbin/agetty 3840
root     17520  0.0  0.0  1680   52 tty1     S    00:54   0:00 [PyQt-3.8.1] sand
root     17521  0.0  0.1  2680   64 tty1     S    00:54   0:01 /bin/bash /usr/sb
root     17547  0.0  0.1  2196   60 tty1     S    00:54   0:00 make
root     17548  0.0  0.1  2132   64 tty1     S    00:54   0:00 /bin/sh -c cd qt
root     17549  0.0  0.1  2288   60 tty1     S    00:54   0:00 /usr/bin/make -f
root     17550  0.0  0.0  1820   56 tty1     S    00:54   0:00 /usr/i386-pc-linu
root     17551  6.0 22.2 111268 12964 tty1   D    00:54  78:43 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/
root     17552  0.2 21.2 67788 12372 tty1    S    00:54   3:30 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/
root     29336  0.0  0.3  2284  232 ?        S    18:08   0:00 login -- root
root     29653  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        DW   22:31   0:00 [pdflush]
root     29654  0.1  0.4  2292  236 tty2     S    22:31   0:00 -bash
root     29662  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        DW   22:32   0:00 [pdflush]
root     29671  0.0  2.8  6216 1672 ?        D    22:33   0:00 sshd: root@pts/8
root     29674  0.0  2.1  2288 1248 pts/8    S    22:33   0:00 -bash
root     29678  0.0  1.4  2448  820 pts/8    R    22:33   0:00 ps aux

[Tyr_7BE]

Well in that frame it's only at 21%, meaning it's doing something. If it were in a loop it would take up 99 - 100% pretty damn consistently.

[pbharris]

[quote author=Tyr_7BE link=board=1;threadid=9172;start=0#msg82911 date=1083992079]
Well in that frame it's only at 21%, meaning it's doing something. If it were in a loop it would take up 99 - 100% pretty damn consistently.
[/quote]

thats what i am thinking...

[Tyr_7BE]

Give it another day or maybe even a day and a half. On a 1 GHz Athlon it takes a full day to compile kde...maybe QT is a part of that. It makes sense that yours would take 3 days to compile kde. If it starts to get really ridiculous then just stop it.

[chessforce]

If you have one or more computers that are faster than this, you might want to try DistCC.

[countach44]

But he's so close!!!