> You tried it, although it was just released today? The version from clik was released today. Parallel bzip2 has been around for at least a couple of years.

> You tried it, although it was just released today? The version from clik was released today. Parallel bzip2 has been around for at least a couple of years. In fact, just doing a search for parallel bzip2 will lead you right to both an SMP/threaded version as well as one that uses MPI. I am guessing this is what was being referred to regarding the memory-consumption issues.