Re: Tar (but not cp) is incredible slow on certain dirs; request for comments/solution ideas/clues.

1999-01-23 Thread Alan Cox
> During the slow down, top claims system is well over 90% percent idle, > CPU time consumed by tar and general system time spent is virtually zero You have NIS configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf but are not running NIS

RE: Tar (but not cp) is incredible slow on certain dirs; request for comments/solution ideas/clues.

1999-01-22 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
Sorry for my last german msg. It was intended to go to Heinz Christian only. Michael. -- Michael Weller: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], or even [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you encounter an eowmob account on any machine in the net, it's very likely it's me.

RE: Tar (but not cp) is incredible slow on certain dirs; request for comments/solution ideas/clues.

1999-01-22 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Heinz Christian wrote: > Hello, > > Seems you´re one step behind us ;-) Am I? Oder.. Bin ich/Sind wir (ich habe das mit einem Freund probiert)? > an installation of linux on a QuadPPRO machine with 1 GByte RAM was successful - >just ´till we compiled a new kernel > with

Re: Tar (but not cp) is incredible slow on certain dirs; request for comments/solution ideas/clues.

1999-01-21 Thread Dietmar Goldbeck
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:20:54AM +0100, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > Hi people, > > I've the following weird behaviour on a Compaq Proliant, 1Gig phys ram, > Smart2 Compaq raid adapter with 6 disk Raid 5 array, 2 Xeon CPU's. > > I tried using both CPU's or only one (disabling it from the bios)

Re: Tar (but not cp) is incredible slow on certain dirs; request for comments/solution ideas/clues.

1999-01-21 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Dr. Michael Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During the slow down, top claims system is well over 90% percent idle, > CPU time consumed by tar and general system time spent is virtually zero Can you look in the Red Hat 5.0 errata list, and search for ``tar slowdown'' ?

RE: Tar (but not cp) is incredible slow on certain dirs; request for comments/solution ideas/clues.

1999-01-21 Thread Heinz Christian
Hello, Seems you´re one step behind us ;-) an installation of linux on a QuadPPRO machine with 1 GByte RAM was successful - just ´till we compiled a new kernel with support for our (additional) RAID-Controler (ICP/Vortex) and bootet it. mke2fs with the RAIDset on the ICP ended in 95% of the tri