[OE-core] Long delays with latest bitbake (was: [PATCH 1/7] insane.bbclass: in file-rdeps do not look into RDEPENDS recursively)

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 14:56 +0100, richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 14:56 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> What is really odd is this on both traces:
> 
>    524436  405.102    0.001  405.266    0.001
> /home/alexander/development/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py:264(notific
> ations)
> 
> What that means is that cooker recieved notification of 524436 file
> changes whilst it was parsing/preparing runqueue.
> 
> I would be very interested to understand which files its being
> notified
> of changes to as I suspect there is something that shouldn't be
> there.

This is a bit of a false lead. At least locally I found them to be
profiles of the individual tasks being written out which is only
triggered on profiled builds.

We should write those files to a different directory to avoid this
confusion of the profiles...

Cheers,

Richard