From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18332 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2009 19:52:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 18324 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Apr 2009 19:52:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ugmailsa.ugent.be (HELO ugmailsa.ugent.be) (157.193.49.116) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:52:15 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ugmailsa.ugent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id E372E306B2A for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:52:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ugmailsa.ugent.be ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ugmailsa.ugent.be [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WJDZgaojZOxo for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:52:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cypress.ugent.be (cypress.ugent.be [157.193.71.48]) by ugmailsa.ugent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF14306BAD for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:52:12 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAEfA7Umdwc4w/2dsb2JhbADUZIN6Bg Received: from mail.elis.ugent.be ([157.193.206.48]) by relayrec.ugent.be with ESMTP; 21 Apr 2009 21:52:12 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.elis.UGent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC63B2BABC1; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:52:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ssh2.elis.UGent.be [157.193.206.127]) by mail.elis.UGent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F1E2BABAB; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:52:05 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Nick Savoiu , gdb@sourceware.org Message-Id: <702D3FCE-02F7-4C70-AC67-3C7C62CDEBD0@elis.ugent.be> From: Jonas Maebe To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <83ljpthlq2.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Subject: Re: GDB using a lot of CPU time and writing a lot to disk on startup Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:42:00 -0000 References: <592922.54823.qm@web52001.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <8ac60eac0904201639r19f7d539v2b301fcb24e82317@mail.gmail.com> <20090420234805.GA28850@caradoc.them.org> <8ac60eac0904201654h1775560se59718b127ccbfad@mail.gmail.com> <742711.93110.qm@web52008.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200904211551.n3LFphaO009791@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <808758.98762.qm@web52004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <83ljpthlq2.fsf@gnu.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-04/txt/msg00176.txt.bz2 On 21 Apr 2009, at 21:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > There should be no need to argue about this: just look at the disk LED > when the problematic behavior kicks in. Or run "iostat 1" in a separate shell (you may have to install it explicitly before it's available). Jonas