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From: "Björn Stenberg" <bjst@enea.com>
To: McClintock Matthew-B29882 <B29882@freescale.com>
Cc: "poky@yoctoproject.org" <poky@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add pigz as gzip-native alternative.
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:59:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313085953.GA5754@giant> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEsOVNcXW_AAuq3aJORztmW9-pCH9ztJsUZ8PwGzFX2yjs8uzQ@mail.gmail.com>

McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> I thought about doing this - can you share any performance numbers?

pigz seems to scale fairly well. I compared the time it takes to compress the final rootfs tarball in do_rootfs for one of my images. 

gzip:

real    1m33.523s
user    1m33.146s
sys     0m0.368s

pigz:

real    0m2.239s
user    1m40.554s
sys     0m0.716s

This is on a 64-core machine.

-- 
Björn


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-12 15:47 [PATCH] Add pigz as gzip-native alternative Björn Stenberg
2012-03-12 16:11 ` McClintock Matthew-B29882
2012-03-13  8:59   ` Björn Stenberg [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-13 14:52 Björn Stenberg
2012-03-13 15:05 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-03-14 15:59   ` Björn Stenberg
2012-03-14 16:27     ` Paul Eggleton
2012-03-15  8:25       ` Björn Stenberg
2012-03-19 14:46         ` Koen Kooi
2012-03-19 15:58           ` Björn Stenberg
2012-03-19 17:56             ` Koen Kooi
2012-03-20 14:12               ` Björn Stenberg
2012-03-20 14:16                 ` Koen Kooi
2012-03-19 16:32 ` Saul Wold

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