On Monday 8 January 2007 21:16, Nico Schümann wrote: > Hi folks, > > I recently set up a Core 2 duo system. Following the AMD64 howto, the > system now works. Kernel compilation took 1:40 minutes passing -j6 to > make. > > Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was > about 40 % in idle which is clear because bzip2 is only one process. > So is there any way to build those utilities like bzip2 or gzip in a > thread-using way?
Use pbzip2, a parallel version of bzip2. It's in portage. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
