In article <20030225024617.3194.qmail@schnarff.com>
alex@schnarff.com wrote:

> I've noticed, going through packages, that often my system spends several 
> hours (5+ in this particular case) on a call like the following: 

I also see the same problem during build.sh on
the recent (around 20030223) kernel.
top(1) says cc1 is stalled on biowait and CPU state is almost idle,
so I guess it is some vm related problem in MI, not sh3 specific one.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp