Might be silly but do u get similar results if u:
1. expand to a memory backed disk
2. expand to /dev/null
Steve
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From: "JG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I had to unpack a lot of tar archives and I occasional noticed terrible
bad performance on freebsd5.
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