🚀 go-pugleaf

Salim GASMI (salim@gasmi.net) wrote:
: I have installed RedHat 5 with kernel 2.0.32
: Disk writing seems very slow
: when I do a tar xvzf of a linux-2.0.33.tar.gz
: it writes and decompress 20 files and freeze for some seconds
: does the following 20 files and freeze again some seconds
: and so on .. the whole operation takes more than 5 mins !

This problem has been fixed, you should have a look from times to times to
redhat product errata (www.redhat.com) :
> Package: initscripts 
> Updated: 10-Mar-1998 
> Problem:
[...]
> This also fixes the extremely slow tar extractions (a specific case of
> general user and group lookname brokeness) 

get the patch & intall it! You should get others fix too, as it may fix
futures problems ;-)

    Fantec

Following is a translation into french as it has been posted in
fr.comp.os.linux :

Les probl�mes de lenteur du tar sont r�solus par la mise � jour du package
initscripts. L'inventaire des mises � jour est disponible chez redhat
(www.redhat.com) et y jeter un coup d'oeil n'est jamais une perte de temps
(surtout quand on a des probl�mes). De m�me, une lecture des archives 
(r�centes) de fcol t'aurait permis de retrouver cette r�ponse. Il peut
�galement �tre utile de ramener les autres corrections, celles-ci peuvent
t'eviter de retomber sur d'autres probl�mes.