Re: cpu usage for GTAR on alpha

[Uncle George]

Uncle George wrote:
> 
> i have a 160gig ide drive on my alpha. The drive is not terribly fast,
> but apparently neither is the tar program that is going through the
> 992767 used inodes with 69gig used disk space.
> 
> the program top shows that tar has used up some 224 minuts, thus far,
> with some 60megs of main memory.  cpu usage seems to be  in the range of
> 77% to 90%. This is a 533mhz processor.
> 
> Is there some reason why i am suffering so ?
> Is there a remedy ( like an alternate sort algorithm ) ? for all the
> files that i think you are storing in kore?
> 
> /gat
> 
> can u also email me directly, as i am not a part of this list. thanks