On 07/13/2015 06:52 PM, g wrote:
more for thought, is tar building finale file in memory, /tmp, or on the usb3 drive?
:) Well, since I was using a pipe, I assume swap backed memory is used. However, the un-tar process is running in parallel, so the RAM pipe is shared between the producer "tar" and the consumer tar, which populates the destination directory with the contents of the source directory. That said, I do not think that the entirety of the source dir is first copied to the "pipe", before it is then consumed by the "un"tar process. I think the RAM pipe is being read (emptied), as the producer fills it (using thread synchronization primitives). Just my guess. I have not looked at tar's source code. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
