> 3. The fact that the tar extraction process is so slow as to be effectively useless, suggest
>something of a larger problem.

I would expect tar to be more I/O bound.

> If you submit multiple CPU-intensive tasks then you should see multiple
> cores
> go to high percent used.  But if your tasks are I/O bound then the CPU %
> will
> not hit 100% as the process block for I/O.

hmmm.... perhaps the CPU and CPU scheduling are not the issues.

Can you try some other I/O bound processes, say, backups or just dd
if=/dev/sdwhatever of=/dev/null and see what happens?

How's memory look?

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