Re: Parallel GZIP
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:37:34AM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:10:04PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> >
> > Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux
> > repositories that can take the benefit of multiple cores/cpus?
>
> Could you please giva a usage scenario?
>
> Is the task really CPU bound and not i/o bound?
Installing on a new dual PII-450 box from a local apt-cacher repository.
The box was an HP NetServer LPr with hardware RAID. Yes, the install
was compute bound according to top. It would have been nice if there
was a drop-in replacement for gzip that dpkg could have used that would
use both CPUs.
Doug.
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