Use multiple CPU Cores with your Linux commands

Posted by scarythoughts on Thursday October 17, 2013 @04:16PM
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Re:Use multiple CPU Cores with your Linux commands by devicenull on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:57PM (#6569342)

I find my favorite use of GNU parallel is as a parallel drop in replacement for xargs.

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Re:Use multiple CPU Cores with your Linux commands by wmf on Thursday October 17, 2013 @04:41PM (#6567988)

BTW, bzip2 has been obsoleted by xz and the parallel version is called pxz.

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Re:Use multiple CPU Cores with your Linux commands by iamthad on Thursday October 17, 2013 @07:11PM (#6568797)

xz is clearly superior in many regards. My understanding is that xz can use significantly more memory upon compression/decompression.

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