Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Afio faster than Cpio???
Message-ID: <7046@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 1 Dec 88 19:00:52 GMT
References: <360@hrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <360@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel VP) writes:

>Is it true that afio is faster than cpio? When I run it on a Convergent
>S/640 (25MHZ 68020), on 5.33 megs, afio takes 45 to 50 seconds longer
>than cpio. Any suggestions as to what I need to do to get the speed up?

Are you using the -f flag to afio?
Have you tried a large -c count?

Other than the different ways of handling i/o buffering there shouldn't
be a large difference in speeds.

Les Mikesell