Extracting .rar files is slow, too slow

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

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

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