Stephen Chadfield wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc unix_fan <tmellman@web.de> wrote:
>> I just had an interesting experience - a task I had was about 67x faster
>> under Solaris than when I'd previously run it under SuSE Linux.
>>
>> I keep backups in a format I call .cgz - compressed cpio.
>>
>> I have such a backup that's about 6gig of uncompressed data.
>>
>> I wanted to expand it from the DVD it's on onto a new USB drive I have.
>>
>> It just took 36 hours to run the command:
>>
>> gzip -cd /media/K3something-or-other | cpio -icvd usb-dir
>>
>> I don't recall that creating the backup took overnight, but extracting it
>> certainly did.
>>
>> Just on a hunch, I ran the restore on the Solaris system I just set up on
>> the USB drive. It took about 32 minutes.
>>
>> You can't believe what a joy it was to see the DVD light on solid, rather
>> than the stumbling sometimes on, sometimes off that happened under Linux.
>>
>>
>> Some details to the task/test:
>>
>> The Linux test was from my desktop which has SuSE 10 running on an
>> approximately 1GHz cpu and about 256 MB memory.
>
> Try another distro - I would recommend Troll Linux for your needs. It
> has blindingly fast USB transfer speeds.
>

Just a small point: trolls often have difficulty with English. Something
that is '67 times faster' would be '68 times as fast'. Trolls get
confused & fail to make distinctions.

The only test that is worth considering is one in which all those things
that can be configured have been set to the same value. This is not
'tuning'; it is ensuring that you compare like with like. You could run
openSUSE on a mainframe & Solaris on a desktop - but what would the
point of the comparision be?