suspend time accounts into merge time

[krotuss]

Hi, when I put my computer into S3 sleep while running emerge, I get high "current merge time" reported by genlop because it accounts when computer is in sleep. Can this be configured? I would like to account only time when computer is actually "running".

[grknight]

genlop is a log reader. It simply subtracts the start timestamp from the end timestamp. The log does not have consideration for sleep.

[krotuss]

Was it ever put under consideration to provide more representative time(s)? Eg. it wasn't implemented because of limited dev resources or because nobody requested it?

[grknight]

The log for a build looks like this (emerge.log):

[krotuss]

It could output something like:

[szatox]

I don't know how it is actually handled in portage, but standard logging utilities can actually handle timestamps for you, which is very convenient.
You can try e.g. calling something like
logger "my message"
On my system this alone is enough for "my message" to appear in /var/log/everything/current, along with timestamp and tagged with my username.

Doing full accounting of consumed resources would require emerge to actually request accounting data from kernel and explicitly send them to logs, which is a bit of extra work not really related to managing packages AKA going out if its way to provide additional reporting which may or may not be useful.
Note that this data is inherently unreliable anyway, so getting more accurate historic reports won't let you make better predictions. It is always going to be a rough estimation, like the order of magnitude. Like, "am I going to wait for a duration of a sandwich, a walk, or do should I just come back tomorrow?"
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