thanks for you help. i tracked down the problem to very poor configuration of my hard drive. hdparm revealed buffered disk read speed of 2.5 MB/ sec. Tuning the drive using hdparm, I got the speed up to 27 MB / sec. Now the same tar task runs much faster and kjournald uses very little cpu time.
martin Leonid Grinberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This probably should not matter, but, was this after extensive system > resource using tasks (i.e. did you do anything big before hand). Try > tarring a similar group of files again right after booting, and tell > me how long it takes > -- Linux is user friendly. It's just very particular about who it's friends are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
