Bugzilla Bug 130345

equery d -a gawk doess't finish

griever@cloud ~ $ top
Tasks: 163 total,   7 running, 155 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 57.9% us,  2.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 36.7% id,  1.0% wa,  1.8% hi,  0.7% si
Mem:    905648k total,   895496k used,    10152k free,    36388k buffers
Swap:   546204k total,      308k used,   545896k free,   624584k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
11950 root      25   0 14140  10m 2476 R 96.4  1.2 105:16.57 equery             
    1 root      16   0  1468  504  440 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.35 init               
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0        
    3 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.05 events/0           
    4 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 khelper            
    5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread            
    7 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid             
  114 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kblockd/0          
  117 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd              
  169 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush            
  170 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.27 pdflush            
  172 root      12  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0              
  171 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.33 kswapd0            
  264 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod            
  349 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0              
 1339 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 reiserfs/0         
 1950 root      12  -4  1696  752  576 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.05 udevd

As far as I can tell, there is no hdd activity after a while but equery still
uses a lot of idle CPU power.


* app-portage/gentoolkit 
     Available versions:  0.2.0 0.2.0-r3 0.2.1 ~0.2.2_pre3 ~0.2.2_pre4
     Installed:           0.2.1
     Homepage:            http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/tools/index.xml
     Description:         Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo


Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org
http://gentoo.osuosl.org"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync1.ro.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aalib alsa apm audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo
cdr crypt cups curl dri dts eds emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg flac
foomaticdb fortran gd geoip gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk2 guile idn imagemagick
imlib imlib2 isdnlog jikes jpeg junit lcms libcaca libwww lua lzo mad matroska
mhash mikmod mmx mmxext mng modplug motif mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls
no_wxgtk1 ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib png pppd python quicktime
readline rtc ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd tga theora tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xchatdccserver xml2 xprint xv
xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
MAKEOPTS

app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre5

This bug was fixed in app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre1 as part of bug 169929