[gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Hey guys! Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2 and was very happy, because I'm an owner of an Q6600. So I tried to reproduce the benchmark from the wiki article but got that bad results: test # time *bzip2* -d -kf linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Justin: Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2 and was very happy, because I'm an owner of an Q6600. So I tried to reproduce the benchmark from the wiki article but got that bad results: So my

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 10:58 +0100, Justin wrote: Hey guys! Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2 and was very happy, because I'm an owner of an Q6600. So I tried to reproduce the benchmark from the wiki article but got that bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Yes it is! But a question at this point: Where can I find the Enhanced Real Time Clock Support or is it gone in the 2.6.23? Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Justin: Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Justin: But a question at this point: Where can I find the Enhanced Real Time Clock Support or is it gone in the 2.6.23? Run make menuconfig and use the search function (/). HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
I did but without success. Thats why im asking!! Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Justin: But a question at this point: Where can I find the Enhanced Real Time Clock Support or is it gone in the 2.6.23? Run make menuconfig and use the search function

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? Justin schrieb: Hey guys! Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2 and was very happy, because I'm an owner of an Q6600. So I tried to reproduce the benchmark from the wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Google is my friend: Device Drivers --- Character devices --- M Enhanced Real Time Clock Support Justin schrieb: I did but without success. Thats why im asking!! Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Justin: But a question at this point:

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Justin wrote: Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? Can this top-posting stop, please? Interleave, and snip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:40 +0100, Justin wrote: Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? I fear, no easy one. Of course, since emerge is just a python script, you could rewrite it but 7z-syntax isn't compatible with bzip2 or gnu-tar so it will be some work. I also tried to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008, Justin wrote: Thats a good point. Now it worked really fast. But then the questions is why should I use pbzip2 for decompression with portage? I think most tarballs are packed only with the normal compression algorithm! The WIKI articel pretends a gain of speed

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 27 January 2008 18:29:56 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Why not an universal wrapper script ? maybe something like:     magic-uncompress [-t format] [-c] [-o output] input     This script could try to find out the input format automatically (the optional -t parameter allows to explicitly

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:40 +0100, Justin wrote: Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? I fear, no easy one. Of course, since emerge is just a python script, you could rewrite it but 7z-syntax isn't compatible with

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Enrico Weigelt schrieb: * Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:40 +0100, Justin wrote: Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? I fear, no easy one. Of course, since emerge is just a python script, you could rewrite

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 13:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008, Justin wrote: Thats a good point. Now it worked really fast. But then the questions is why should I use pbzip2 for decompression with portage? I think most tarballs are packed only with the normal