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

[Andrew Haley]

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.