Am 09.05.2025 um 14:18 schrieb Edgar Fuß:
>> Is it expected that, when writing to SSDs, tar x of an archive containing 
>> relatively small files (11GB in 600k files) is completely cpu bound 
>> (system) with the discs nearly idle?
> That was on -8. I switched the server back to -10 and that speeds up the 
> extraction by aproximately a factor of 10! Is that expected?

HEAD/doc/CHANGES says:

> libc: Limit writes to stdio FILE handles via fvwrite to INT_MAX
>       rather than BUFSIZE. Improves performance dramatically.
>       From enh via Apple libc.  [christos 20240329]

This change also made it into the netbsd-10 branch.

See fvwrite.c revision 1.31 and 1.30.2.1 for details.

Roland

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