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$ time pbzip2 -d -v -p7 enwiki-latest-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2
Parallel BZIP2 v1.0.2 - by: Jeff Gilchrist [http://compression.ca]
[July 25, 2007] (uses libbzip2 by Julian Seward)
# CPUs: 7
-------------------------------------------
File #: 1 of 1
Input Name: enwiki-latest-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2
Output Name: enwiki-latest-pages-meta-history.xml
BWT Block Size: 900k
Input Size: 158580524398 bytes
Decompressing data...
*WARNING: Compressed block size is large [158580524398 bytes].
If program aborts, use regular BZIP2 to decompress.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
Aborted
real 16m8.074s
user 4m11.704s
sys 2m19.061s
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