Re: [Openmosix-devel] 2.4.24-2???

[Hans K. R. <hk...@is...>]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 04:22, Peter Cordes wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:03:40PM +0200, Hans Kristian Rosbach wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:46, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> > > on 2.4.24-om1 it could be possible, without the fix, to corrupt
memory.
> > > you have to run a newer kernel to be sure that's not related to
that.
> > 
> > Okay, I hope it's fixed too..
> > 
> > I haven't rebooted yet, so further info follows:
> > 
> > But, now that I try to run 'tar jxvf gcc.tar.bz2' it seems so
annoyingly
> > slow that I after a while checked top..  It uses ~5% cpu..
> 
>  tar is?  That sounds about right.  Most of the work in extracting a
tarball
> is bzip2 decompression.  bzip2 is an expensive algorithm.  You should
see
> that bzip2 is using most of the CPU, with tar taking a little, and
some
> system time as the kernel takes time to find disk blocks to put all
that
> stuff.
> 
>  If bzip2 is only getting 5%, that would be a problem.

Okay, total cpu usage was 5%. Tar, bzip2 and X included.

-HK