[X-Apps] Why does stuffing kill my machine?

[wes]

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On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 04:14 PM, Bill Reburn wrote:

> I am unstuffing a couple folders of images (stock photo's).. The 
> processor
> is maxed out and the process eats up hundreds of megs of ram (whatever 
> is
> free).
>
> Is that normal? Someone school me if I am missing the boat here, I can 
> see
> the process of unstuffing being taxing - but why does it eat up 
> EVERYTHING
> in site in terms of ram/processor?
>
> I am on a Ti, running OSX, 768MB's ram, nothing else running except
> Entourage, Textedit and some other useless stuff. (useless as in not 
> worth
> mentioning I this context)

'tis the way it is, especially if you're unstuffing large files - on 
the order of hundreds of megabytes. If you can find a way to unstuff 
from the terminal (I'm not sure if Stuffit Expander can be run on the 
command line) then you could 'nice' the program and it would defer to 
other applications, but that would slow it down more. Do a 'man nice' 
in the terminal to get more information about nice.

- -- 
wes / wgriffin at jtan.com / 000f1a2f

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