On 22-Aug-2001 Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > Yesterday I had to compress a big tar archive (350MB) with Bzip2. > I launched it from a console inside KDE, then in a second console I > launched "top", that told me KDE was using 46% (at least) of the > processor's power, and bzip2 45-50%. > I thought it was strange, since KDE was doing NOTHING!! that console was > the only app running! > > Could you explain this? One (among many) reasons to switch to Linux is the > better use of the power, so what is this? > > Another (silly) question: I didn't remember how to compress the archive > with tar then bzip using a single command line, in order to have only the > final .tar.bz2 file in the HD without passing from the .tar file. Could you > write it? > for the compression use the -j option to tar i.e tar cfvj xxx.tar.bz2 somefiles ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 23-Aug-2001 Time: 14:31:36 ----------------------------------
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