Hello again, On Fri, 28 Feb 2020, Dan Ritter wrote:
A ridiculously decelerated gzip is evidence of one of the following: - CPU throttling - disk errors - something interfering with the disk reading or writing
You've probably seen my reply to your first by now, it seems that disc access problems can be ruled out if 'rm /file/in/ram' is ridiculously slow too! But I hadn't thought that something might be throttling CPU by accident so I need to look into that too, thanks. -- 73, Ged.