Andrew Benton wrote: > I don't think you can blame xz for this. 1.2GB is a huge file. I get: > > andy@eccles:~$ time tar -xf texlive-20110705-texmf.tar.xz > > real 2m0.428s > user 1m30.334s > sys 0m5.243s > > So far, the same as you. But look at this, if I just use xz to > decompress it it still takes one and a half minutes: > > andy@eccles:~$ rm -rf texlive-20110705-texmf > andy@eccles:~$ time xz -d texlive-20110705-texmf.tar.xz > > real 1m33.782s > user 1m31.334s > sys 0m1.523s > > However, then using tar alone and it's back to two minutes again: > > andy@eccles:~$ time tar -xf texlive-20110705-texmf.tar > > real 2m0.242s > user 0m0.370s > sys 0m4.563s
Yes, it is a huge file. I guess I just saw what top was saying and thought it was due to the compression. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
