On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:37:34AM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:10:04PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > > > > Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux > > repositories that can take the benefit of multiple cores/cpus? > > Could you please giva a usage scenario? > > Is the task really CPU bound and not i/o bound? Installing on a new dual PII-450 box from a local apt-cacher repository. The box was an HP NetServer LPr with hardware RAID. Yes, the install was compute bound according to top. It would have been nice if there was a drop-in replacement for gzip that dpkg could have used that would use both CPUs.
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