Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines
John Carmack just had a tweet today on this problem:<p>>I started a tar with bzip command on a big directory, and it has been running for two days. Of course, it is only using 1.07 cores out of the 128 available. The Unix pipeline tool philosophy often isn’t aligned with parallel performance.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1656708636570271768?t=flIt5lJb6xXTWgLvoEVzAg&s=19" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1656708636570271768...</a>