On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Nezmer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 04:31:23PM -0500, Dan McGee wrote: >> >> This is *ONE* iteration: >> >> dmc...@dublin ~ >> $ time bsdtar -tf /var/cache/makepkg/src/linux-2.6.34.tar.bz2 >/dev/null >> >> real 0m51.631s >> user 0m49.940s >> sys 0m0.287s >> > > Would caching help here if "bsdtar -tf" loads the archive into memory?
This was a cached run; it makes no difference though because the bottleneck here is CPU, not I/O. -Dan
