Re: What's taking so long??

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 01/21/2011 09:17 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 07:25 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> This particular test was isolated, just that one recipe.  I noticed
>> it before when building a complete image, so running it isolated does not
>> seem to make any difference.  There is also nothing else running on my build
>> machine (it's a separate server that is used only for builds)
>>
>> This is against master as of 2011-01-14 (897530621fabf3c345c302050a5c21e16097a2ba)
>> with my local layers.
>>
>> What can I look at (alternatively what data can I provide) to help
>> understand this?
>
> You could try pulling in:
> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=ede381d56b180b384fdad98d445e5430819cfade
> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=7857834691868b7f48f732ee78d8770f5473ff68
> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=fd88588df029604689db9b0e30c55aad68392a5d
>
> and see if they fix the problem. I'm not sure that they would in a
> single task case but who knows. You could also try adding timings as per
> my previous email, the change to package.bbclass was simply:
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/package.bbclass b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
> index 8e7fa26..8b0cb96 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/package.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
> @@ -1082,6 +1082,7 @@ python package_do_package () {
>                  return
>
>          for f in (bb.data.getVar('PACKAGEFUNCS', d, True) or '').split():
> +               bb.error("Running %s" % f)
>                  bb.build.exec_func(f, d)
>   }
>   do_package[dirs] = "${SHLIBSWORKDIR} ${PKGDESTWORK} ${D}"
>
> as I'd like to understand of the 23 minutes, where the time is being spent.

For my board:
Fri Jan 21 10:12:13 MST 2011: NOTE: Running task 658 of 661 (ID: 11, /home/local/poky-amltd/meta-amltd/packages/linux/linux-am_2.6.32.bb, do_package)
Fri Jan 21 10:12:13 MST 2011: NOTE: package linux-am-2.6.32-r0: task do_package: Started
Fri Jan 21 10:12:13 MST 2011: ERROR: Running perform_packagecopy
Fri Jan 21 10:12:27 MST 2011: ERROR: Running package_do_split_locales
Fri Jan 21 10:12:27 MST 2011: ERROR: Running populate_packages
Fri Jan 21 10:12:27 MST 2011: WARNING: <string>:5: RuntimeWarning: tmpnam is a potential security risk to your program
Fri Jan 21 10:12:27 MST 2011:
Fri Jan 21 10:12:45 MST 2011: NOTE: package linux-am-2.6.32-r0: task do_populate_sysroot: Succeeded
Fri Jan 21 10:28:33 MST 2011: ERROR: Running package_do_filedeps
Fri Jan 21 10:34:16 MST 2011: ERROR: Running package_do_shlibs
Fri Jan 21 10:34:21 MST 2011: ERROR: Running package_do_pkgconfig
Fri Jan 21 10:34:23 MST 2011: ERROR: Running read_shlibdeps
Fri Jan 21 10:34:23 MST 2011: ERROR: Running package_depchains
Fri Jan 21 10:34:23 MST 2011: ERROR: Running emit_pkgdata
Fri Jan 21 10:34:23 MST 2011: ERROR: Running do_package_qa

For the BeagleBoard:
Fri Jan 21 13:32:22 MST 2011: NOTE: Running task 878 of 882 (ID: 17, /home/local/poky-amltd/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-stable_git.bb, do_package)
Fri Jan 21 13:32:22 MST 2011: NOTE: package linux-yocto-stable-2.6.34+git0+ed446ecd29e8c0f81ab8630a2db652121eeb0b75_0+35521a5a70316785a67aca1de1d39a7b84c49ccf-r1: task do_package: 
Started
Fri Jan 21 13:32:23 MST 2011: ERROR: Running perform_packagecopy
Fri Jan 21 13:32:25 MST 2011: ERROR: Running package_do_split_locales
Fri Jan 21 13:32:26 MST 2011: ERROR: Running populate_packages
Fri Jan 21 13:32:27 MST 2011: WARNING: <string>:5: RuntimeWarning: tmpnam is a potential security risk to your program
Fri Jan 21 13:32:27 MST 2011:
Fri Jan 21 13:32:31 MST 2011: NOTE: package linux-yocto-stable-2.6.34+git0+ed446ecd29e8c0f81ab8630a2db652121eeb0b75_0+35521a5a70316785a67aca1de1d39a7b84c49ccf-r1: task 
do_populate_sysroot: Succeeded
Fri Jan 21 13:32:43 MST 2011: ERROR: Running package_do_filedeps
Fri Jan 21 13:35:52 MST 2011: ERROR: Running package_do_shlibs
Fri Jan 21 13:35:54 MST 2011: ERROR: Running package_do_pkgconfig
Fri Jan 21 13:35:54 MST 2011: ERROR: Running read_shlibdeps
Fri Jan 21 13:35:55 MST 2011: ERROR: Running package_depchains
Fri Jan 21 13:35:55 MST 2011: ERROR: Running emit_pkgdata
Fri Jan 21 13:35:55 MST 2011: ERROR: Running do_package_qa

Interesting results.  I'm going to run it again, with more messages
in the two time consuming steps - populate_packages & package_do_filedeps

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