Zoran Kikic schrieb: > Sorry for double post. > > After a reboot things are different now: > > time tar -xf linux-2.6.21.3.tar.bz2 > real 0m30.726s > user 0m28.630s > sys 0m3.864s > > This is disturbing because I ran a stress test before > the first time I tried tar... but I definitely killed all > stress test processes before. > > I will try to reproduce this..
Well.. not all processes were killed.. I overlook some bzip2 processes created by the stress script. However, when I run this particular script my console can't react any more. Is it possible to increase the console priority? stress script - run 4x simultaneously and your box gets into trouble ---------- #!/bin/sh find / | xargs tar cf - | bzip2 > /dev/null& find / | xargs tar cf - | bzip2 > /dev/null& find / | xargs tar cf - | bzip2 > /dev/null& find / | xargs tar cf - | bzip2 > /dev/null& find / | xargs tar cf - | bzip2 > /dev/null& find / | xargs tar cf - | bzip2 > /dev/null& find / | xargs tar cf - | bzip2 > /dev/null& find / | xargs tar cf - | bzip2 > /dev/null& find / | xargs tar cf - | bzip2 > /dev/null& find / | xargs tar cf - | bzip2 > /dev/null& --------- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
