On Wed 29 Jan 2003 10:27:22 +0000(+0000), Clive Standbridge wrote: > > I think you would want to round up nnumber to avoid one processor running two xargs processes: Sorry, that wasn't quite what I meant to say. I'll try again: ... to avoid xargs running two mogrify processes on one processor. I hope that that's clearer. -- Cheers, Clive