I have to ask

[bronwynrh]

At 10.06GB and counting, am I really compressing anything?
10:40pm and I'm still at work. I have to be back here in. . . 9 hours. This better be done soon. Lord, I still need to transfer the tar.gz file over to the MDSS for the robots to play with.

I think I'll save that step for morning.

10.17GB and still going. . . relatively speaking, it's almost done.

I hope.

Edited to add: I just read "tar.gz file" as tar-jizz file and nearly snorted water out my nose. I must be tired, even my gutter-thought brain cells are losing it. 10.3GB

Edit #2 10:45 pm and it's finished!!! 10.408657. . . gigs. *whew*!
And it only took, what, 3.5 hours?

Good night!

Comments

[platofish.livejournal.com]

3.5 hours??!!?

You got some kinda old computer with valves and steam pipes?

I don't think it gets steamy in the IT office downstairs. . .

[bramey.livejournal.com]

Actually, it wasn't even running off my computer. I was controlling it from here, but all the work was being done on the server. I guess it's the server that's slow.

When I came in this morning (7:30, dark and early), the command line screen said that it took 4:55 to transfer the 10-point-whatever gig tar.gz file from the server to the MDSS.

Glad I didn't stay around to watch that!