Comment # 13 on bug 1158474 from Harald Koenig

(In reply to robert spitzenpfeil from comment #10)
> 
> Something is VERY wrong with your computer.

yes: it's running opensuse tumbleweed.  SCNR:-(

did you read and thought about my comment #5?
any comments about this?

> time sudo /usr/sbin/depmod ...

did you notice that I've never used "sudo" in my examples ?
so your example is different. let's try to compare apples with apples...

so I tried your example and SURPRISE (all runnning as root as before): 

# time sudo  /usr/sbin/depmod -F /boot/System.map-5.3.12-1-default -ae
5.3.12-1-defaut
        5.725 0m5.725s real,    5.447 user,     0.276 sys,      99.95 cpu

# time   /usr/sbin/depmod -F /boot/System.map-5.3.12-1-default -ae
5.3.12-1-default 2> /dev/null 
        141.370 2m21.370s real, 39.274 user,    102.088 sys,    100.00 cpu

I have no clue (yet!) what's going on -- but it's an interesting point for more
investigations and tests!
so thanks a lot for this hint!!


and no, I still do not believe and see no evidence that this is related to my
hardware (other then having 10-100 times too (s)low single cpu core performace
as I would like to have;)

looks like I have to dig deeper and find the subtle difference between "time
sudo  /usr/sbin/depmod" and "time   /usr/sbin/depmod"
"strace" is one of my good friends -- but this will take some more time;-(

stay tuned!