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Re:Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-cor... by zargon on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:26PM (#35919215)
If it's less than 98% complete he could still stop it, start over and still finish sooner.
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Re:Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-cor... by jandrese on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:40PM (#35919414)
I'd bet tar becomes the bottleneck before pbzip2 does on that multicore monster. It can be surprisingly slow and I don't think any version of tar uses more than one core.
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