star needed some additional functionality. So if you want to use mtwrite with star, please download the latest version. Performance numbers look like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ timex mtstar xf gcc.tar.gz star: WARNING: Archive is 'gzip' compressed, trying to use the -z option. star: 15889 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 162703360 bytes = 158890.00k). real 9.72 user 2.92 sys 2.77 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ rm -r gcc-* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ timex star xf gcc.tar.gz star: WARNING: Archive is 'gzip' compressed, trying to use the -z option. star: 15889 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 162703360 bytes = 158890.00k). real 33.94 user 2.55 sys 2.78 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ rm -r gcc-* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ gzip -d gcc.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ timex mtstar xf gcc.tar star: 15889 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 162703360 bytes = 158890.00k). real 15.32 user 0.46 sys 3.24 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ rm -r gcc-* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ timex star xf gcc.tar star: 15889 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 162703360 bytes = 158890.00k). real 34.00 user 0.12 sys 2.24 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ timex mtstar xf binutils.tar star: 31872 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 326369280 bytes = 318720.00k). real 13.14 user 0.64 sys 3.92 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ rm -r binutils-* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ timex star xf binutils.tar star: 31872 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 326369280 bytes = 318720.00k). real 27.25 user 0.10 sys 3.52 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ rm -r binutils-* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ gzip binutils.tar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ timex mtstar xf binutils.tar.gz star: WARNING: Archive is 'gzip' compressed, trying to use the -z option. star: 31872 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 326369280 bytes = 318720.00k). real 14.56 user 6.74 sys 3.93 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ rm -r binutils-* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp$ timex star xf binutils.tar.gz star: WARNING: Archive is 'gzip' compressed, trying to use the -z option. star: 31872 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 326369280 bytes = 318720.00k). real 24.35 user 6.15 sys 3.56 gcc.tar are the core directories of gcc-3.4.6 and gcc-4.1.1 binutils.tar are the object files directories of compiled binutils for various architecture (ppc, x86, m68k, avr, arm, m68hc16) As you can see from the numbers above, the performance gain is about x2-x3 with star. Cheers, Thomas This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
