Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:40:06 +0200 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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> A Pentium 1200 running Linux-2.5.25 (ext3) results in: > > # star -xp -time < rock.tar.bz2 > star: WARNING: Archive is bzip2 compressed, trying to use the -bz option. > star: 10372 blocks + 1536 bytes (total of 106210816 bytes = 103721.50k). > star: Total time 3190.483sec (32 kBytes/sec) > 53:10.490r 12.299u 2970.099s 93% 0M 0+0k 0st 0+0io 4411pf+0w > > You see, during the 53:20, the machine is only 7% idle!
A Pentium 1200, eh? More like Pentium 120 or star just doesn't cut it.
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Athlon 1GHz:
kala@nibbler:/tmp/1$ time tar xjf rock.tar.bz2 real 3m19.703s user 0m9.870s sys 0m24.840s
According to top, the system was ~90% idle during the extraction. Linux 2.4.19-rc1-ac3, reiserfs 3.6.
T.
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