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April 02 2010

21:53

Pigz – parallel gzip OMG

Kitchen Soap

Pigz is basically parallel gzip, to take advantage of multiple cores.  When you’ve got massive files, this can be a pretty big advantage, especially when you’ve got lots of cores sitting around.

Taking a 418m squid access log file, on a dual-quad Nehalem L5520  with HyperThreading turned on:

[jallspaw@server01 ~]$ ls -lh daemon.log.2; time gzip ./daemon.log.2 ; ls -lh ./daemon.log.2.gz
-rw-r—– 1...