Indeed, I finally got through the build with your suggestion, though it took 1900 minutes. Is this normal?
Thanks for your help, Duane On Jan 11, 7:55 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2:37 pm, DuaneKaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Hello Duane, > > > I downloaded the sage 2.9.3 tarball to my notebook (Debian, Centrino > > 1.5Ghz, 2Gb RAM), and started a build. > > > That was about 2 days ago, and it is _still_ grinding away at the > > build (still seems to be progressing, plenty of memory free, no disk > > thraashing) > > > Is this normal? Other than this, nothing else seems amiss with the > > functioning of the notebook. Is there anything else I can check? > > You have hit an ATLAS build bug, namely that ATLAS mis-detects Pentium > Ms as CoreDuos (seehttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1740). > That has been fixed for the next, i.e. Sage 2.10, release. > > To solve this kill the build, > downloadhttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-2.10/alp... > and copy that file into spkg/standard. There should already be > atlas-3.8.p6.spkg in that directory. Then restart the build via make > from the base directory of Sage. If the build keeps running that long > you have hit another bug. You should also disable power management > while building Sage (you have a laptop after all). For instructions > see the question "QUESTION: Sage 2.9 and higher fails compiling ATLAS > on Linux. How can I fix this?" athttp://wiki.sagemath.org/faq > > > According to top, there is a _lot_ of time spent running programs like > > xctfc, and other x<nnnn> variants > > Yep, those are the tuning routines, which in your case do a complete > tuning, which is very, very expensive. With a pretuned build ATLAS > takes about 16 minutes to build on a Opteron 248. > > > Thanks, > > Duane. > > Let me know if anything else odd happens or if you have any more > questions. > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-forum URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
