Thanks a tonne..That code works perfectly and also shows me how to
think of using queue and threads in my python programs
Hari
On Jul 27, 1:26 pm, MRAB wrote:
> harijay wrote:
> > I want to quickly bzip2 compress several hundred gigabytes of data
> > using my 8 core , 16 GB ram workstation.
> >
harijay wrote:
I want to quickly bzip2 compress several hundred gigabytes of data
using my 8 core , 16 GB ram workstation.
Currently I am using a simple python script to compress a whole
directory tree using bzip2 and a system call coupled to an os.walk
call.
I see that the bzip2 only uses a sin
