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Fastest GZIP utility

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Mar 15, 202618790 views
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Problem

I'm looking for the fastest (or zip) utility. I have a LVM volume which 95% exists out of blank 's, so compressing that is very easy. I'm looking for the most fastest solution, and don't really care of the compression except the 's. I'm aware of (same as ) but was wondering if there's any faster me…

Error Output

104857600+0 records in
104857600+0 records out
53687091200 bytes (54 GB) copied, 2086.87 seconds, 25.7 MB/s
7093985+266013 records in
7163950+1 recor…

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Although I personally have not yet used it, I think using parallel gzip could speed up things a bit: pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple co…

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