The other machine is a 700mhz duron with 128megs of ram running freebsd
(all the same tar and gzip versions.)

 I don't really buy the "get more ram" thought (I too had this idea)
because it untar'd fast during the initial upgrade from 1.5 to 1.5.1, only
when in 1.5.1 was it slow(assuming my memory serves me. I would have
noticed if it was that slow though, I'm decentley impaitent.)

itai at replic d0t net

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> >
> >  Heres the situation
> >  K6-2/300MHz, 64MB RAM, NetBSD 1.5.1., 2 physical drives both with
> > softdeps
> >
> >  While trying to untar pkgsrc.tgz on a un-loaded system (about 20megs of
> > RAM used, no swap space used) it's abysmall slow. Disk writes top out at
> > about 200KB/second. I did not notice this when the same box was running
>
> it is unfortunately normal.
>
> >  These same tar files untar fast on another box.
>
> smaller drive with larger cpg and more cache?
>
>