"David Phillips" <david at acz.org> writes: > David Dyer-Bennet writes: > > He said a *compressed* tar archive. The compressor/decompressor runs > > in a separate process. Hence that would load both processors (and > > does here, when I do it). > > Ah, you're right, I wasn't thinking about the compressed part. Though it > probably isn't a good test, as tar will normally use less than 1% of the CPU > that gzip does (as tested on my SMP machine with IDE disks). Yeah, I really should run two pair at once, to get max CPU utilization in the backup. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <dd-b at dd-b.net>, <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <noguns-nomoney.com> <www.dd-b.net/carry/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <dragaera.info/> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list