Re: Slow tar ? (2.1.129pre1 and pre4)

Michael K Vance (mkv102@psu.edu)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:59:38 -0500


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.

m.

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