* Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:58:59AM -0200)
>>> 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).
Where can I get tar 1.13.19 ?
The latest I can find on pub.gnu.org is 1.13.
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