This program parallelizes the BZIP2 compression process to achieve a near-linear performance increase on SMP machines. On a two-processor Xeon machine, the speedup is around 180%. The tool's main purpose is to aid performing heavy-duty server backups.
Download Parallelizing BZIP2 for SMP machines
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All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux
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BSD License
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Backup, Compression
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Project Admins :
ikm
- Developers : 1
- Development Status : 5 - Production/Stable
- Intended Audience : Advanced End Users, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
- License : BSD License
- Operating System : All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux
- Programming Language : C
- Topic : Backup, Compression
- User Interface : Command-line
- Project UNIX name : bzip2smp
- Registered : 2005-11-30 18:30
- Activity Percentile (last week) : 52.44
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