Re: Tar (but not cp) is incredible slow on certain dirs; request for comments/solution ideas/clues.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:51:38 +0000 (GMT)

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> During the slow down, top claims system is well over 90% percent idle,
> CPU time consumed by tar and general system time spent is virtually zero

You have NIS configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf but are not running NIS

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