Flatcar Container Linux · @flatcar
183 followers · 17 posts · Server hachyderm.io

New Flatcar Alpha release now available!
πŸ– Added pigz package (faster gzip)
πŸ“¦ Many package updates: Linux, gcc, GnuTLS and more
πŸ”’ CVE fixes & security patches: git, curl, GnuTLS and more
πŸ”‘ Rotated signing key
πŸ’© Improved coredumps
πŸ“œ Release notes at the usual spot: flatcar.org/releases/

#linux #cloudnative #containers #updates #pigz

Last updated 1 year ago

Geekland · @geekland
727 followers · 12779 posts · Server mastodon.social
Ben Zucker 🍰 · @benzucker
63 followers · 4159 posts · Server maly.io

IMHO should have as compression algorithm by default.

#lxc #pigz

Last updated 2 years ago

Simon B · @simon
583 followers · 1309 posts · Server fosstodon.org

Compressing a 300GB file using with 48 cores for an upcoming post. Wonder how long this will take.

#pigz #blog

Last updated 2 years ago

Charadon · @Charadon
86 followers · 1693 posts · Server fosstodon.org

So, I tested vs by compressing a text file of the entire bible (4mb). And the results:

gzip: 4885MB/s
pigz (4 threads): 13406MB

Holy moly

#gzip #pigz

Last updated 2 years ago

grin · @grin
108 followers · 1217 posts · Server mastodon.grin.hu

I need to a lot of 's, so, again, tested and .
The current winner for time/size race was "lzip -7" (which is same as plzip -7, uses all threads available). rate slightly below pixz but it's hugely faster (also has better fileformat πŸ˜‰).
May have been some zstd only if it would be simple to figure out the right combo of 22 options.

#compress #logfile #pbzip2 #lbzip2 #lzip #xz #pixz #pigz #zstd #Compression

Last updated 5 years ago

OSTechNix · @ostechnix
520 followers · 1486 posts · Server floss.social
Alex [Archived] · @avolkov
26 followers · 2095 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

I have a 20GB disk image of sparsely populated data -- less than 2GB used.

The pigz (parallel gz) compressed it into a 2GB file in 1m 30s on 4-CPU 8-Thread CPU from an NVME drive.

```
pigz -5c -b 4096 diskfile > diskfile.gz
```
-5 -- level of compression (0-9)
-b -- blocksize (default 128K)
-c -- write to stdout (keep the original)

#pigz #gz #linux

Last updated 5 years ago