Re: slow tar

Mircea Damian (dmircea@pop3.kappa.ro)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:01:23 +0200


On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 01:12:38PM +0100, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:56:45PM +0100, thomasz@hostmaster.org wrote:
>
> > I have also noticed this problem after switching to 2.1.128. This is somehow similiar to the problem in the initial RedHat 5.0 Release which was fixed by an updated initscripts package. tar blocks five seconds on every file to extract:
> > -> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP) = 4
> > -> bind(4, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(615), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> > -> ioctl(4, FIONBIO, [1]) = 0
> > -> sendto(4, "7\\&\243\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206"..., 56, 0, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = 56
> > -> select(1024, [4], NULL, NULL, {5, 0}
>
> Missconfigured NIS / yp?

If your sistem is using glibc2 then just check the file /etc/nsswitch.conf and
remove any NIS/yellow pages configs. I had the same problem when I upgraded my
system to glibc2.

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