(In reply to Harald Koenig from comment #12) > (In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #9) > > So, actually what kind of hardware are you testing? > > I'm not really testing hardware -- I just try to use my own private notebook: > see very end of original report: > > Lenovo X260 with 2-core Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz, > 16 GB ram and Samsung 850EVO SSD. > > so not too old to explain what's going on... > Not old, broken. My vegetable of a CPU performs better. > anyone else want to provide 'benchmark results' for your platform(s) for > this test ? time /usr/sbin/depmod -F /boot/System.map-5.3.12-1-default -ae 5.3.12-1-default 2> /dev/null real 0m15.188s user 0m11.194s sys 0m0.869s Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1000M @ 1.80GHz / Samsung SSD 860 EVO