Re: parallel to gunzip and merge .gz files

2011-11-12 Thread Shao Zhang
Try p7zip. It works in parallel so all you have to do is tell it to archive all those files and it will use all available CPUs to do it. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Cook, Malcolm wrote: > I may prove wrong, but, it appears to me that since you want to append the > results, which is necessari

New bug: flock not implemented -> sem fails

2011-11-12 Thread parallel-bugs
Hello again; I'm trying to install parallel 20110822 on a lustre filesystem, and apparently it does not support flock() by default, and the system call dies with: lock(7, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) Reference: http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/FAQ_-_Fundamental