Re: tar slow (2.2.0-pre4)

Dag Wieers (dag@digibel.be)
Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:53:09 +0100 (CET)

> 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 ?)

dag wieers, <dag@digibel.be>, http://dag.ml.org/ _| _ _
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