No. Tar and compress are single threaded. Depending on what you are wanting to do, mksquashfs will build a filesystem img that you can mount, and it will use all cores when it compresses, and the way it compresses it is easier to mount it and pull out parts.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 6:33 PM ToddAndMargo via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am noticing that > > tar czvf xxxxx > > is only using one of my cores (and pretty much all of > the core). > > Is there a way to get it to use more than one core? > > Many thanks, > -T > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
