On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:30, Nick Rout wrote: > On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:01:57 +1200 > Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 6 hours... > > you could try speeding it up with nice. > I'm not sure nice would speed it up. as i said theres not much else > happenning cpuwise on the box anyway.
Well - consider it an overnight task. Write a crontab entry for midnight to check a directory, and if theres files there then compress them overnight. Can the encoding be interrupted and resumed later? Remember, night-rate power is cheaper (1/4 the price) of daytime power... so long processing should be done then :-)
