[CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?
Jerry Franz
jfranz at freerun.com
Thu Jan 6 13:54:15 UTC 2011
On 01/06/2011 05:47 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a
> rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster?
tar is normally screaming fast unless you use bzip2 compression (or gzip
compression on an underpowered CPU).
Provide details: What are you tarring, how are you invoking tar, what
hardware are you running on (hard drive types, cpu type, etc).
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Benjamin Franz
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