Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 1998 02:36:03 -0800 | From | Michael Nelson <> | Subject | Re: Slow tar ? (2.1.129pre1 and pre4) |
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On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 04:59:38PM -0500, Michael K Vance wrote: -> Mark Orr wrote: -> -> > I compiled up (from .126) to 2.1.129pre1 (and later pre4) today. -> > I noticed that for some reason, tar was working very very slowly. -> -> Ditto on 2.1.12{6-8} for me. gunzip runs fine, so does bunzip2, but tar will -> just sit there for minutes on end, consumign little or no CPU. Mind you, it -> doesn't just un-tar everything and sit there--it actually seems to spread its -> job out over the eons.
I'm seeing the same thing. The wierd thing is that if I boot into single user mode it untars the same files lightning fast.
Michael
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