Try running a vmstat in another window to see whats going on.  ('vmstat 5'
to have it update every 5 seconds..start it before you untar).  Most likely
it's something to do with fs cache in ram.

-dallas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Rosinski" <mail@rickrosinski.com>
To: "PLUG" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 8:55 PM
Subject: After untarring large archive....


> My system seems to slow drag really bad just after untarring a large
archive.
> It seems that the directory database needs to be updated just after the
> untarring of the archive - this is a guess - maybe it is an ext 2
filesystem
> problem.  I have been plagued with this for many years, and I am sure that
I
> am not alone.  Is there some way to eliminate this problem?
>
> Using:
> Slack 8.1 (But, it was always a problem on any distro that I have used).
> 400 MHZ w/ 384MB RAM
>
> Thx in advance.
>
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