Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:

> The numbers depend a lot on the actual hardware, and the relative
> speed of the cpu and disks, I think. I just tried extracting
> gcc-3.0.4.tar (note, no .gz, unzipping would soak up most of the idle
> time). top reported that the tar process consumed about 60% cpu, and
> an overall CPU usage of about 10% user, 50% system and 40% idle.

So on the Hurd, you had 30%, and on Linux, you have 60%?