extracting .rar files is slow, too slow

dids22 · 2008-02-21 16:41:27

hi
i have problem with extracting files. it takes too much time.
just for ex' extracting 1G on linux took 3.5 minutes and 40 sec' on windows (on the same hardware)

* i'm using xarchiver 0.4.6

ty

lang2 · 2008-02-21 17:37:14

What about the cmd line tool?

dids22 · 2008-02-21 17:58:24

the command "unrar e" took about 4.5 min'

brebs · 2008-02-21 18:27:06

Are you extracting to a Windows partition?

dids22 · 2008-02-21 18:30:55

nope, to the home partition

Mikko777 · 2008-02-21 19:11:54

dids22 wrote:

hi
i have problem with extracting files. it takes too much time.
just for ex' extracting 1G on linux took 3.5 minutes and 40 sec' on windows (on the same hardware)
ty

I've noticed the same problem. Pacman grinds system (firefox) to a halt too.
iirc, I dont think rar'ing was always this slow. Guess it might have something to do with sata, ncq and schedulers.

unrar x 701MB.rar temp2/ 4.69s user 4.51s system 4% cpu 3:12.77 total

lucke · 2008-02-21 20:24:59

Hym, I just unpacked a 715MB rar archive and it took 40s.

3800+ X2, 1GB ram, almost full XFS partition

fwojciec · 2008-02-21 20:42:07

$ls -la file.rar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 filip filip 547M 2008-02-21 15:33 file.rar

time unrar x file.rar
(...)
real 0m26.772s
user 0m17.039s
sys 0m3.423s

Maybe it's a filesystem issue? I use reiserfs.

Rasi · 2008-02-21 20:53:09

Well try this:

unrar a file normally with unrar x file.rar
then unrar a file in konqueror (marking, alt+u) with settings set to "dont test archives"

I promise you one thing: you will never say unrar x is slow...

Cant say that i understand it tho, as krusader uses unrar to unpack files...

dids22 · 2008-02-21 23:16:15

there is no such option ("dont test archives")

gazj · 2008-02-21 23:58:21

As a matter of interest run top alongside, and see if a lot of cpu time is allocated to wa, If so it's most likely some sort of disk bottleneck issue. I have had something similar before moving big files around.

Last edited by gazj (2008-02-22 00:01:20)

lilsirecho · 2008-02-22 03:05:18

Check dmesg |grep ata................

Rasi · 2008-02-22 09:24:17

dids22 wrote:

there is no such option ("dont test archives")

there is... in the archives options (settings -> configure krusader -> archives)

its unimportant anyway, because krusader STILL is so slow, you can actually count the MB's easily when hitting refresh...

Last edited by Rasi (2008-02-22 09:26:15)

Mikko777 · 2008-02-22 09:48:17

lilsirecho wrote:

Check dmesg |grep ata................

mikko:~$ dmesg |grep ata
30:EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

kangaroofish · 2010-06-24 06:50:42

Hi there,

i have the same problem. my hdd is ata but except for unrar all seems to be fine.

is the issue resolved yet or did anyone find a solution?

my processor is running at 100% during extraction, but still it's super slow

thanks

Arch Linux

#1 2008-02-21 16:41:27

extracting .rar files is slow, too slow

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