On Jan 25, 2001, Ajay Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I don't understand. If the CPU usage dropped that much, it implies
>> the GNU tar might have been done. Did you do a "ps" to see what was
>> going on?
> Yeah, the gtar process was the one taking up 70% of the CPU, then after
> 20 minutes it was only using 0.4%. It never finished, I just killed it
> so I could run a manual dump command.
strace would have told you what it was doing.
You may want to try tar 1.13.19, that uses a hashtable instead of
linear searches in file lists (compliments to Jean-Louis Martineau).
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