"/usr/bin/gstack is a script which invokes gdb and it's slow. Especially for threaded C++ apps." Background: Most of the time is spent reading the symbols and unwinding the stack for each thread. GDB maintains 3 different symbol tables which causes the slowness. There is a discussion about speed/performance from sourceware.org: https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/SymbolHandling?highlight=%28faster%29 --- Additional comment from Jan Kratochvil on 2014-07-15 11:24:03 EDT --- Upstream PR http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16405 --- Additional comment from Jan Kratochvil on 2014-10-01 15:50:28 EDT --- [patch] Fix 100x slowdown regression on DWZ files https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-10/msg00020.html
gdb-7.7.1-20.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdb-7.7.1-20.fc20
Package gdb-7.7.1-20.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gdb-7.7.1-20.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-12309/gdb-7.7.1-20.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
gdb-7.7.1-21.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdb-7.7.1-21.fc20
gdb-7.7.1-21.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.