Re: slow tar ?!

[Axel Klatt <axel isb net>]

Kanazawa Yuzi wrote:
> 
> >>>>> In article <3556B567.7EAB4C64@isb.net>, Axel Klatt <axel@isb.net> writes:
> >> In between extracting a tar archive with 'tar xvfz yx.tar.gz'
> >> it takes long breakes .. :-)
> >> This should not be ..
> >> Does anybody know how to solve this Problem?
> 
>   RedHat 5.0 has a bug which makes tar extraction very slow.
>   Upgrading initscripts package to initscripts-3.32-1 may fix your
> problem.
> 
> ---- http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh50-errata-general.html ----
> Package: initscripts
> (30-Dec-1997) /proc gets mounted properly with this package. The
> package initscripts-3.25 had a bug that caused problems with some
> clone network device configurations. This also fixes the extremely
> slow tar extractions (a specific case of general user and group
> lookname brokeness)

hmm this was not the problem ... I had to start the rpc portmaper :-7
and tar is as fast as I expect... 

Axel


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