About:
bzip2smp 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. It can also be used on modern desktop multicore processors (such as AMD Athlon64 X2 and Intel Pentium D).

Author:
Konstantin Isakov [contact developer]

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8.54/10.00 (2 votes)

Homepage:
http://bzip2smp.sourceforge.net/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		Advanced End Users, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (original), OSI Approved :: BSD License (revised)
[Operating System]		POSIX, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		System :: Archiving :: Backup, System :: Archiving :: Compression

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0	04-Dec-2005	BSD License (revised)