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Article #11193Re: Zoo problems (disk thrashing)
From: Fred Walter
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1989 05:10
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1989 05:10
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In article <171@hhb.UUCP> bvk@hhb.UUCP (Brett Kuehner) writes: >Is this when your zoo archive is in a directory with a lot of files in it? I >have a directory on my HD with about 50 files in it. If I do a >"zoo l foo.zoo", where foo.zoo is in that directory, zoo appears to thrash >on the drive a lot, possibly reading in the name of each file in the >HD directory (and very slowly). It will eventually list the archive, though. Yes this is what happens with me. I never before waited to see how long it would take for a listing to appear (1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS in a directory with 93 files in it).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!grwalter From: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Zoo problems (disk thrashing) Message-ID: <23314@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 28 Jan 89 05:10:43 GMT References: <2169@van-bc.UUCP> <171@hhb.UUCP> Reply-To: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 10