One of the things we have done at Rose-Hulman to help
        with this type of problem is to trim the chunksize
        down tremedously.  That way only a much smaller portion
        of the file is cached in.

        Operations to large files (such as un-tar'ing files)
        seem to suffer with the small chunksize, so I'd
        just try experimenting with various numbers.  (On
        our NeXT's we have the chunksize all the way down
        to 8K).

                                        -Mark Monnin
                                         Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech

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