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). -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ 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