Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:43:13 -0500 (EST) | From | Blue Lang <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.4.16 & Heavy I/O |
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Wild guesses follow..
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, war war wrote:
> In essence, the 'tar' command is finished, however, 30-60 seconds > after it has finished, it is actually still decompressing the data to > the file on the disk.
It's probably writing it from RAM to disk. 60 seconds seems like a looong time, tho. What does iostat -x tell ya during the time when tar is finished and the disk is still going?
> On Solaris, when I untar a file, the disk stops grinding when the tar > process is finished, and the system is totally usuable.
You can mount your filesystem synchronously..
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