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SubjectRe: Slow tar ? (2.1.129pre1 and pre4)
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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"Life is not a dress rehearsal" -- unknown

Michael Nelson San Francisco, CA nelson@imat.com

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