Naught naught naught. Naught naught. Naught naught naught… Two. Damn Roosevelt

My college group actually talked about this 20 years ago v the name we came up with: The Uniburn. Portmanteau of unibrow and sideburn

All the comments here are great. One other suggestion I didn’t see: use chrt to start the build process with the sched_batch policy. It’s lower than sched_other, which most processes will be in, so the compilation processes should be bumped off the CPU for virtually everyone else

I stole it from Tom Peters

You could also try debugging with gdb. https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/gdb.html

This may me way more technical than you wish to dive into, but it also might shed some light on where things are stuck.

Could you try addkng “-serial stdio” and see if any info comes out on the console?

Well because I’ve wrecked my sleep schedule and need a pick me up to finish the days chores I’m usually microwaving leftover coffee. I need help haha

This might sound crazy, but when the kids are asleep I hold the microwave door button in as I shut it. It’s pretty darn quiet