Re: tar -> unresponsive machine
Dear Vincent,
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds
> to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)?
Depending on the IO priority of the tar command (probably higher if
run as root, check with ionice) and the disk access scheduler
(cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler), this may vary wildly.
But especially if you are using a spinning hard drive (rather than a
SSD) and the needed libraries are not yet loaded, it doesn’t appear
implausible for xterm to take a few seconds to show up. If you have
swap and Firefox was swapped out, swapping it back in might also take
some time, although it _should_ be responsive afterwards.
IOW, some more information on your setup (disk type, output of free
-m etc) might be helpful.
Best,
Claudius
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