[tlug] Super long compile times

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

I've got a weird case here.

My dad is, at this very moment, doing a rebuild of a Mandrake kernel
RPM on Mandrake 9.1.  Here's where the going gets weird: it's been
running for about three hours, on an Athlon XP 2200+ with 512 meg
and all disks are 7200 RPM ATA 100 or 133.  It's not doing anything
else.  I also have an Athlon XP 2200+ with 512 meg and similar disks,
and can build a kernel in around 20 minutes.

I was surprised to find it still compiling and was wondering what sort 
of borkage was lurking.  A bit of questioning revealed that he has
always seen really long compile times like this out of Mandrake.  On
his old machine, a 1 GHz Duron with 256 meg, building Mozilla would
take 8 - 10 hours! 

I've never run across anything like that, but then, I've never been able
to stand Mandrake for long enough to find out things like that.  

Has anybody else ever seen problems like this on a Mandrake system?
It doesn't seem to be hardware dependent, since the machine he's using now
has nothing in common with his old Duron machine except the keyboard and
the video card (Rage 128).

Ideas?

Jonathan
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