Re: autoconf "make check" is reeeeeeeeeeeeally slow on Solaris 8

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> Now with current CVS (but the system is loaded ATM):
> | $ \time /bin/sh -n testsuite
> | 
> |  real     5:41.1
> |  user       10.0
> |  sys        50.5
>
> (No further analysis done yet.)

I assume that means it takes only about 6 minutes on your machine?
So it's at least 30 times faster than mine.

On my machine /bin/sh thrashes indefinitely, creating lots of /tmp/sh*
files in /tmp.  As I write, there are 1154 such files.  Periodically,
it renames big chunks of these files by using link and unlink.

This is the standard Solaris 8 /bin/sh, as patched by Sun on
2005-02-18 in Sun patch 109324-08.  One of the patches affects how
/tmp files are created.  Perhaps that leads to the difference we're
observing?

-r-xr-xr-x   4 root     root       95320 Jan 19  2005 /bin/sh

Another thing: my /tmp isn't a swapfs; it's just an ordinary ufs file
system.  That slows things down a bit.