On Monday 29 August 2011, Stephan Kulow wrote:
These tools are so essential that a possible replacement must done very carefully. For example what happens on a quad core CPU with "make -j 4" if make invokes 4 multithreaded pbzip2? A load of 16!? Is this what the user wants?
A load of 16 doesn't mean that the computer explodes, it just means that the kernel has more options to pick IO.
Yes, I just mentioned that users (like me) may have parallelized their jobs already. I'am sure that invoking 4 single threaded gzips will give you always more throughput than one 4-threaded and even more than 4 4-threaded ones. And the IO and CPU load will keep the machine more usable. Also I guess the mem usage will increase with more threads. I dont't want to have my scripts messed up per default. Please don't make such extreme behavior changings for such old and stable tools without long testing period. cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org