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

[Bill Reburn]

Thank you Wes,

I will do exactly what you suggest. I have no need to sit and wait for the
files to decompress, but it really locks things up unnecessarily I think.



On 2/5/03 6:54 AM, "wes" <wgriffin at jtan.com> wrote:

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





Bill Reburn