Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!grwalter
From: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Zoo problems (disk thrashing)
Message-ID: <23314@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 89 05:10:43 GMT
References: <2169@van-bc.UUCP> <171@hhb.UUCP>
Reply-To: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <171@hhb.UUCP> bvk@hhb.UUCP (Brett Kuehner) writes:
>Is this when your zoo archive is in a directory with a lot of files in it? I
>have a directory on my HD with about 50 files in it. If I do a
>"zoo l foo.zoo", where foo.zoo is in that directory, zoo appears to thrash
>on the drive a lot, possibly reading in the name of each file in the
>HD directory (and very slowly). It will eventually list the archive, though.

Yes this is what happens with me. I never before waited to see how long it
would take for a listing to appear (1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS in a directory with
93 files in it).