[cfarm-users] GCC111 filesystem is very slow

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 10:32, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 04:36, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users
> <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 7:53 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> > <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 1:46 AM Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users
> > > <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
> > > > The filesystem on GCC111 seems very slow. Unpacking a tarball takes
> > > > minutes, and deleting the directory takes minutes. The tarball is
> > > > CMake sources, and it is only about 8 MB.
> > > >
> > > > Compiles of source files in the directory are relatively fast, so it
> > > > does not seem to be a compute bound problem.
> >
> > Thanks Ævar.
> >
> > I don't think it is your testing. GCC111 is still slow. So is GCC119.
>
> It's because AIX filesystems are just slow.

Or at least, *these* AIX filesystems are. I don't know about AIX in general.

It's been covered several times on the cfarm mailing lists.