On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:35:38 +1200 CF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
yeah I will next time! (but I want it now!) > 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? not sure, after 3 out of 6 hours i'm not gonna chance it! > > Remember, night-rate power is cheaper (1/4 the price) of daytime > power... so long processing should be done then :-) > > >
