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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:02:50 +0100
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On Monday 8 January 2007 21:16, Nico Sch=C3=BCmann wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I recently set up a Core 2 duo system. Following the AMD64 howto, the
> system now works. Kernel compilation took 1:40 minutes passing -j6 to
> make.
>
> Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was
> about 40 % in idle which is clear because bzip2 is only one process.
> So is there any way to build those utilities like bzip2 or gzip in a
> thread-using way?

Use pbzip2, a parallel version of bzip2. It's in portage.

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