Chris Murphy composed on 2020-12-24 23:44 (UTC-0700):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> Since I've been seeing it on other installations, I timed this one:
>> real    7m31s
>> user    7m8.9s
>> sys     0m30.2s

> I started seeing it with the early 5.9-rc's. But haven't seen it since
> release versions. In my case top shows depmod and weak-modules; and
> many small files being created and destroyed in a loop. [1] But
> haven't seen it in a while or with any of the 5.10 or 5.11 kernels.

> If you aren't seeing those indications:  Do you have any 3rd party
> modules that depend on dkms? Are you running a 5.10 series kernel at
> the time, and is sysroot btrfs? [2]

Neither.