Pádraig Brady wrote: > Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: >> Hello, >> >> inspired by the attempt to make `sort' multi-threaded, I added threads >> support to md5sum and the sha* programs family. It has effect only when >> multiple files are specified. >> >> Any comment? > > How does it compare to: > > files_per_process=10 > cpus=4 > find files | xargs -n$files_per_process -P$cpus md5sum > > I would expect it to be a bit better as file_per_process > could be very large, thus having less overhead in starting > processes. Though is the benefit worth the extra implementation > complexity and new less general interface for users?
Hi James, I was wondering would it be worth adding the nproc module to xargs to support -P without any options to use the number of CPUs as the value. Hmm, I could see it being useful to specify NCPUs-1 also. I wonder is there a general external method to determine the number of CPUs. cheers, Pádraig.
