From: Alfie Costa (agcosta@gis.net)
Date: Sat May 10 2003 - 01:03:08 CEST
On 5 May 2003, at 12:33, ShadowRage <mulinux-forum@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> when I unpack USR.bz2 it locks at 68% and the HD is still busy.. but
> nothing gets done.. and I have 68 mb left on my HD....
It's memory hungry bzip2. 'man bzip2', under "MEMORY MANAGEMENT", explains it.
The good of bzip2 is how it fits the most data on the floppies. The evil is
how it cripples 4 meg machines.
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