Messages in this thread | | | From | CaT <> | Subject | Re: tar slow (2.2.0-pre4) | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:03:41 +1100 (EST) |
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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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