Re: tar x cpu bound

[Edgar Fuß]

> Is it expected that, when writing to SSDs, tar x of an archive containing 
> relatively small files (11GB in 600k files) is completely cpu bound 
> (system) with the discs nearly idle?
That was on -8. I switched the server back to -10 and that speeds up the 
extraction by aproximately a factor of 10! Is that expected?