I wrote: >Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com> wrote: >>On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:52:51AM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote: >>> Even if tar (and pax, which I also tried) was to use stdio, this would not >>> explain being bound by /system/ cpu time. >> >> Sure it does, because stdio was issuing thousands of small writes instead >> of single large writes. > > The initial post stated that they were small files in the tar archive.
But 11G / 600k is still going to be larger than a stdio buffer.
