Re: tar x cpu bound

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

I wrote:
>Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:
>>On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:52:51AM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote:
>>> Even if tar (and pax, which I also tried) was to use stdio, this would not 
>>> explain being bound by /system/ cpu time.
>>
>> Sure it does, because stdio was issuing thousands of small writes instead
>> of single large writes.
>
> The initial post stated that they were small files in the tar archive.

But 11G / 600k is still going to be larger than a stdio buffer.