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Is there a ZIP archiver for Mas OS X - using ALL CPU cores?
At work every day I have to archive a lot of files for printing in outdoor advertising, etc., sometimes they are small, but often there are hundreds of megabytes and several gigabytes. Today I spent a hell of a lot of time archiving a bunch of files of one and a half gigs and it infuriates me !
If you look in the Activity monitor, you can see that the Finder launches only one thread per archive. When I start to archive 4 files one at a time, it loads the processor by 350%, but if I need to add many files to one archive, then the download is always 100%. In the 21st century, in the latest version of the operating system, on a powerful workstation, archiving is performed as a hundred years ago - in one thread! It infuriates, strains and freezes!
I checked several different archivers and file managers - they all work only in one thread. I have a 6-core Xeon 3.5 GHz in my work machine, and only 1/12 of all this power is used. Terribly embarrassing!
I googled that you can make tar work in multi-threaded mode, but I do not have admin rights to install pigz, and I would like a GIU interface, because often you have to add a couple of ten files to the archive, differing only in the last digits before the extension. I'm not so used to working in the console that I would do it faster than pull-and-throw.
Is there a solution to the problem, or am I destined to sit and look sadly at the progress bar of a single-threaded archiver?
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pigz is a good idea.
surprise, you can build open source software yourself and install it in any directory.
then, most likely, destined to sit and look sad.
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