Tagged: bzip2

gziptest.sh part 2: multi-threaded compression benchmarks

After Part 1 compression tests, I further improved my gziptest.sh script and added three other compression tools to the test, zip, lbzip2 and p7zip. Update: For a more recent live production compression comparison benchmark test between pigz vs gzip on dual Xeon E5520 with 8 physical cpu cores and 16...

gziptest.sh – parallel compression benchmark tests: gzip vs bzip2 vs pigz vs pbzip2 vs lzip vs plzip

A Cpanel feature request thread came up for inclusion for pigz a parallel multi-threaded implementation of gzip which dramatically speeds up compression. Update: Part 2 compression benchmarks have been posted here. Pigz definitely does speed up compression times, I implemented parallel multi-threaded versions of gzip and bzip2 – pigz and...