Re: tar slow (2.2.0-pre4)
CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:03:41 +1100 (EST)
Dag Wieers wrote the following:
>
> > AMD K6, 32MB, IDE hard drive, RH5.0 w/new kernel
> >
> > I don't know what could be causing this, but 'tar' is really slow on
> > recent kernels. When unpacking something, it will unpack four or five files,
> > pause about five seconds, unpack a few more, pause again, and so on. It
> > literally took three hours to unpack the whole 2.2.0 kernel source.
> > (Normally it's something like a minute or so.)
>
> i reported this earlier and some suggested to remove all 'nis', 'nis+',
> 'nisplus' and 'yp' appearances from the /etc/nsswitch.conf
>
> but that doesn't explain why this worked for 2.0.x and older 2.1-kernels.
>
> can this be mentioned in the lkml-faq ?
>
> (it's only reported to slow down on redhat-boxes, other distribution don't
> add nis as a default ?)
Well I have all that crap in mine (redhat 5.1, butchered) and it's groovy.
Always has been.
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