On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sow how long did it take for how many fiels?
>

$ tar -c XXXX | pbzip2 -vc > XXXX.tar.bz2
Parallel BZIP2 v1.1.8 - by: Jeff Gilchrist [http://compression.ca]
[Jun. 10, 2012]               (uses libbzip2 by Julian Seward)
Major contributions: Yavor Nikolov <[email protected]>

         # CPUs: 4
 BWT Block Size: 900 KB
File Block Size: 900 KB
 Maximum Memory: 100 MB
-------------------------------------------
         File #: 1 of 1
     Input Name: <stdin>
    Output Name: <stdout>

Compressing data...
    Output Size: 205714360 bytes
-------------------------------------------

     Wall Clock: 5115.167256 seconds

Don't let the files 1 of 1 fool you, that was because it was receiving
input from 1 descriptor (tar).

This was on a 4 core i7 2.7 GHZ iMac.

Respectfully,
Andrew McElroy





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>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:27 PM, andrew mcelroy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I found myself having to compress a million files less than 12k in size
>> each.
>> tar was likely to take the better part of a full working day (possibly
>> longer, I killed the process and didn't use pv (another great asleep at the
>> prompt topic).
>>
>> Enter: pbzip2
>> http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
>>
>> I'll let the website do it's own talking. It's a parallel bzip2
>> implementation which can auto detect the number of cores it has to work
>> with. Fantastic stuff.
>>
>> Respectfully,
>> Andrew McElroy
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