Re: gcc hangs ! (version 4.1.2, Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Sunzir Deepur wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2008 3:55 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Sunzir Deepur wrote:
> > > followup:
> > >
> > > After a considerabale amount of time (e.g. 15 seconds), something is suddenly
> > > freed, and the compilation completes successfully. afterwards trying
> > > to recompile
> > > the file completes immediately (it is not a big file, so it takes
> > > fraction of a second).
> > > I don't know what is the cause of the hang.. I can tell that while it is hung,
> > > the cpu is not working (gcc doesn't even show in top..).
> > 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.
>
> Thank you. Any idea how can I further scrutinize this ?

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.

Andrew.