Re: [zones-discuss] Tar performance in non-global zone is woeful

2008-12-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Charles Meo wrote: > Note that this disk is flat out writing ~100 KB/sec, using what appear to > be 512b or 1k writes. The identical operation from the same tarball gets > around 15MB/sec in the global zone. What on earth is going on here? How do > I fix it? Sun-tar and GNU-tar both unpack in

Re: [zones-discuss] Tar performance in non-global zone is woeful

2008-12-18 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 18 Dec 2008 at 11:40AM, Charles Meo wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just set up some zones on a V440 to host various applications. I've > noticed extremely poor performance untarring various things, characterised > by masses of very small io operations: ... > Note that this disk is flat out wri