I'm not sure what was at fault here but I had excessive CPU use with findutils after switching from EXT4 to BTRFS in Void Linux. https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/issues/4829 Is this because find isn't optimised for BTRFS, there's a problem with the BTRFS kernel driver, or something else? I built the latest version of findutils from the stable source package and had the same result. I resolved my personal requirements by switching to using mlocate and ag instead, but also saw some other small errors in the source package. Perhaps these other observations might be helpful for you?
File: README-alpha : Says it's an alpha release when it's the latest stable one. The entire ChangeLog-2013 content is duplicated in ChangeLog Typo: README-hacking: "Dejagnu is in fact optional, but it's strongly recommened," Compiles in a standard build, but won't build debug version: findutils-4.6.0$ ./configure --enable-debug $ make ftsfind.c: In function 'main': ftsfind.c:705:49: warning: passing argument 1 of 'ctime' from incompatible pointer type fprintf (stderr, "cur_day_start = %s", ctime (&options.cur_day_start)); ^ In file included from ../gl/lib/time.h:41:0, from ../gl/lib/sys/stat.h:44, from ftsfind.c:39: /usr/include/time.h:264:14: note: expected 'const time_t *' but argument is of type 'struct timespec *' extern char *ctime (const time_t *__timer) __THROW; ^ Fixed that error: find/ftsfind.c #ifdef DEBUG fprintf (stderr, "cur_day_start = %s", ctime (&options.cur_day_start)); #endif /* DEBUG */ Changed to: fprintf (stderr, "cur_day_start = %s", ctime ((time_t *)&options.cur_day_start.tv_sec)); But it seems to have an outdated binary which is only called in a debug build: mv -f .deps/ftsfind.Tpo .deps/ftsfind.Po gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -o find ftsfind.o ./libfindtools.a ../lib/libfind.a ../gl/lib/libgnulib.a -lm -lm ../gl/lib/libgnulib.a(parse-datetime.o): In function `parse_datetime': /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/findutils/gl/lib/parse-datetime.y:1452: undefined reference to `rpl_mktime' /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/findutils/gl/lib/parse-datetime.y:1484: undefined reference to `rpl_mktime' /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/findutils/gl/lib/parse-datetime.y:1497: undefined reference to `rpl_mktime' /home/james/source/GNU/findutils/git/gnu/findutils/gl/lib/parse-datetime.y:1519: undefined reference to `rpl_mktime' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [Makefile:1810: find] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/steve/projects/gnu-findutils/2dbg/findutils-4.6.0/find' make[2]: *** [Makefile:1898: all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/steve/projects/gnu-findutils/2dbg/findutils-4.6.0/find' make[1]: *** [Makefile:1706: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/steve/projects/gnu-findutils/2dbg/findutils-4.6.0' make: *** [Makefile:1646: all] Error 2 The source is different: gl/lib/parse-datetime.y 1452 Start = mktime (&tm); 1484 Start = mktime (&tm); 1497 Start = mktime (&tm); 1519 Start = mktime (&tm); make only updates what it needs to, probably the stable package didn't get built from a clean source. (Sometimes make clean misses stuff too.) Building from git repo would probably fix this, I didn't try that. Steve.
