tar -> unresponsive machine

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

Is it normal that when using the "tar" command to create a big archive,
the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds
to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)?

htop shows that there is still plenty of memory and atop shows nothing
special, except 100% disk busy of course.

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