10 minutes to unpack linux kernel source? hmmm... :-)

[Daniel Veillard]

> If I try to extract the source of the Linux Kernel from the .tgz archive
> to the file system it is terribly slow! And this to me is unbelievable,
> since the machine seems to perform quite well (it is one of our proxy
> server running squid). I've tryed to compile the kernel and the time
> was quite good (some minutes). If I try to extract whichever package
> from a .tgz (operation that obviously involves a lot of write operations)
> the machine seems to sleep every few seconds, and the load average
> doesn't increase (~ 0.0x). 

  Not related to aic7xxx at all.

  Read the errata on Redhat-5.0 

http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh50-errata-general.html#initscripts

and apply the corresponding patches,

Daniel





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