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Tar (as opposed to gzip) is almost entirely I/O bound, it's just reading from the filesystem, adding some headers and then outputting it again. Whatever speed y
by OskarS 6y ago
Tar (as opposed to gzip) is almost entirely I/O bound, it's just reading from the filesystem, adding some headers and then outputting it again. Whatever speed your I/O runs at, you will basically tar at that speed as well.
- banana_giraffe 6y agoYep. One of the biggest speed improvements I got out of a process that creates large tar balls was moving it to use pbzip2 to allow the compression to use multiple cores.