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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, [iso-8859-1] menion™ wrote:
> The other possibility is that Redhat 5.0 had a problem with
> '/etc/nsswitch.conf'. If you were in a non nis or yp domain, and you
> have references to nis, nisplus, or yp in your nsswitch.conf, tar will
> work very slowly.
>
> Yes, it seems strange, but assuming you are not using yp, nis, or
> nisplus try removeing all references to them from your nsswitch.conf and
> it should speed right up.
>
> thanks,
>
> Joshua
>
> Sean Garagan wrote:
> >
> > Good day,
> >
> > I have noticed that untar'ing a file on an UltraDMA HD seems to be extremely
> > slow. Doing an untar with Apache-1.3.1.tar.gz took almost two minutes while
> > untar on the kernel source took much longer.
> >
> > Some specs:
> > WD 6.4G UltraDMA HD
> > Chipset 440BX
> > Pentium II 350MHz
> > 128M 100MHz SDRAM
> > Linux 2.0.3[45]
> > RedHat 5.0
> > tar 1.12
> >
> > Sean
> >
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