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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!mips!darwin.sura.net!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!mcsun!uknet!icdoc!cc.ic.ac.uk!eshc From: eshc@elijah.ee.ic.ac.uk (Eric Cheung) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: extract ran for 7+ hours: HELP!! Message-ID: <1992Aug3.152704.23230@cc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 3 Aug 92 14:27:04 GMT Organization: Imperial College London Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: elijah.ee X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3 Subject line says all. I booted from Tiny, install to 90M partition of HD, reboot from HD, loadfd from floppies, and 'extract'. It went on checking the files, then reporting some files are already present (I assume this is normal), then went on happily for the next 7+ hours. During this time, the HD is used almost continuously. I had to abort when I woke up in the morning and find it still at it. My box: Elonex LT-320X (laptop). Intel 386SX-20/Cyrix387 with cache. ISA. 640K RAM + 1M extended (It is advertised as 2M but the 364K between 640 and 1M cannot be configured as extended). IDE 120M HD. VGA I suspect either or both of the following: 1) Not enough RAM so the extract process is swapping like mad. Hence continuous disk use. (Does cpio use a lot of memory?) 2) My machine cannot run 386BSD So, any advise/suggestion most welcome. Fingers crossed (2) is not the case. 386BSD is such an exciting thing! Thanks in advance. Eric Cheung