On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:33:32AM +0930, Thrashbarg wrote:
> Yes, same problem. I beleive that the problem is with tar/pax, or something
> similar in the userland rather than the kernel, as I can get full speeds when
> writing directly to a file from say /dev/urandom.

Writing to a single file will always be faster than extracting an archive
with a lot of small files in. You could create a ".tar.gz" archive with
a single big file in it and measure the performance of extracting that.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/