Successful build of gcc-3.3 on alpha-dec-osf4.0f

[Janis Johnson]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:30:32PM +0200, Arnold Vogelsang wrote:
> 
> Successful bootstrap build of gcc-3.3. Some tweaks were necessary.
> 
[giant snip]
> 
> The following two files took a VERY long time to compile during
> bootstrap:
> 
> $srcdir/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/abi_check.cc
> $srcdir/libjava/verify.cc
> 
> According to output of ps-command these candidates wasted approximately
> 2 hours cpu time 
> mostly reported being in an uninterruptible sleeping state. Compilation
> time could be speeded up a
> little by renicing the compilation process, but the overall bootstrap
> time lasted over more than 3 days.
> Does anyone have an idea why this happens?
> On the other hand, please be patient...

Benjamin and Tom, I've copied you because it's quite likely you didn't
notice this message.  Is it expected for these to spend a lot of time
sleeping?

Janis