On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 06:58:24PM -0700, Jake Hamby wrote: > I just did a quick performance test of bsdtar vs. gnutar, star, and Solaris > tar in extracting a large (704MB uncompressed) .tar.bz2 archive: > > $ time gtar -xjf ~/Downloads/kde/KDEkderequired-341.tar.bz2 > > $ bzcat ~/Downloads/kde/KDEkderequired-341.tar.bz2 | time tar -xf -
It's dangerous compairing these two - in one you're running time on the entire decompress/untar process, whilst in the second you're only time'ing the untar. The "real" time _should_ be roughly the same for both, but it's still a very unscientific way of doing it. Start with an uncompressed archive, and try again. You should also be careful to make sure that any disk caching/etc doesn't get in the way... Scott. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
