From 22c4b7421c36f34dd27e3883fd6ad1cb119da8eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MacRimi
- This optimization configures pigz as a faster replacement for gzip compression. - Pigz is a parallel implementation of gzip that utilizes multiple CPU cores, - significantly improving compression speed on modern systems. -
- -Why use pigz instead of gzip?
-The following steps are performed:
-- Note: This optimization can significantly speed up compression tasks, especially on systems - with multiple CPU cores. -
- -This adjustment automates the following commands:
- -- Pigz works the same way as gzip but compresses files much faster by using multiple CPU cores. - Here’s how you can test its performance: -
- -- The output will show that pigz completes the compression significantly faster than gzip. - To check the number of CPU cores pigz is using, run: -
- -- After replacing gzip with pigz, you can confirm that the system is using pigz instead of gzip: -
- -
- The output should show that /bin/gzip
is now linked to the pigz wrapper.
-
- By enabling pigz, compression-heavy tasks like vzdump backups and log archiving - will run much faster, leveraging multi-core processing. -
- This optimization configures pigz as a faster replacement for gzip compression. - Pigz is a parallel implementation of gzip that utilizes multiple CPU cores, - significantly improving compression speed on modern systems. + This optimization replaces the default gzip compression with + pigz, a parallelized version that speeds up compression by + utilizing multiple CPU cores.
-Why use pigz instead of gzip?
+The following steps are performed:
-- Note: This optimization can significantly speed up compression tasks, especially on systems - with multiple CPU cores. -
- -This adjustment automates the following commands:
+This automation executes the following commands:
- Pigz works the same way as gzip but compresses files much faster by using multiple CPU cores. - Here’s how you can test its performance: + You can confirm that pigz is being used by running the following command:
+ If the output mentions pigz
, the replacement was successful.
+
+ To measure the speed difference between gzip and pigz, try compressing a large file: +
+ +- The output will show that pigz completes the compression significantly faster than gzip. - To check the number of CPU cores pigz is using, run: -
- -- After replacing gzip with pigz, you can confirm that the system is using pigz instead of gzip: -
- -
- The output should show that /bin/gzip
is now linked to the pigz wrapper.
+ Since pigz utilizes multiple CPU cores, the compression process should be significantly faster.
- By enabling pigz, compression-heavy tasks like vzdump backups and log archiving - will run much faster, leveraging multi-core processing. + With this optimization, vzdump backups and all gzip compression tasks benefit from parallel processing, + reducing execution time considerably.
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