Just a quickie for tarsnap 1.0.35. Featuring my new favourite, download software called aria2.
aptitude install aria2 libssl-dev zlib1g-dev e2fslibs-dev
aria2c https://www.tarsnap.com/download/tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.35.tgz
aria2c https://www.tarsnap.com/download/tarsnap-sigs-1.0.35.asc
gpg --recv-key 2F102ABB
gpg --decrypt tarsnap-sigs-1.0.35.asc
sha256sum tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.35.tgz # should get the value from sig file, 6c9f67....9a
tar xf tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.35.tgz
cd tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.35/
./configure
time nice ionice make -j2
How do I know that -j2 really gives some advantage on raspi ? Well, here is the benchmark:
#fresh, j1
real 14m7.129s
user 6m30.790s
sys 0m21.640s
#-j2
real 11m33.868s
user 6m36.690s
sys 0m19.880s
#-j1 again, caches warmed up
real 12m38.598s
user 6m30.960s
sys 0m20.470s
#-j2 again
real 10m14.975s
user 6m34.980s
sys 0m20.710s