Re: Slow tar ? (2.1.129pre1 and pre4)

Tom Vier (nester@nester.dyn.ml.org)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:39:16 -0500 (EST)

i dunno if this'll help, but a while ago i heard something about tar
and nis, and that removing nis and nis+ stuff from /etc/nsswitch.conf
would speed it up.

> 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.

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