"David Phillips" <david at acz.org> writes: > Richard Hoffbeck writes: > > Doing a compressed tar archive on /usr should load up both processors > > pretty well. > > tar runs in a single process, so it will only run on one CPU at a time. 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). -- 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