From: Randal L. Schwartz Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:26:36 GMT Subject: Re: cloning the kernel - why long time in "Resolving 313037 deltas" Message-ID: <8664c896xv.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: >>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds writes: >> So that *was* a local delay. Linus> Ok, interesting. Two questions: Linus> - what does "top" say (is it CPU-bound? Is it perhaps blowing out your Linus> disk cache? Is it swapping?) Not swapping, but CPU bound. Linus> - do you have "oprofile" (or even just pgprof) to see where the *hell* Linus> that time is spent, if it's actually CPU? I'm a "bear of very little brane" regarding code development on OSX. I can ask around to see if there's someway to profile this. Linus> You're running this under OS X, aren't you? It's a pig of an OS, but Linus> "almost one hour" vs "25 seconds" is still unreasonable. I agree! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.