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 Lines: 13 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