Re: parallel zipping

xargs -P

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:13 AM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> recently ran into and started using pigz ( parallel gzip ) and pbzip2 (
> parallel bzip2 ) for faster compression on multi-proc servers. I like the
> --loadavg option for pbzip2.
>
> "Load average determines max number processors to use"
>
> I have found it to not quite keep below the set limit, but it does pretty
> good and I just set the limit lower than my threshold.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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