Talk:Dbzip2

What is the status of this? Titoxd (?!?) 04:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

My tests of pbzip2 show it's much faster then represented here
Example mysql binlog: webapp1:~ # ls -al binlog.000076 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 287182265 Feb 18 18:34 binlog.000076

bzip2 compression timing: webapp1:~ # time bzip2 -c binlog.000076 > test-bzip2

real   1m14.606s

pbzip2 compression timing: webapp1:~ # time pbzip2 -c binlog.000076 > test-pbzip2

real   0m11.334s

bzip2smp compression timing: webapp1:~ # time cat binlog.000076 | bzip2smp > test-bzip2smp

real   0m14.348s

Note: this is on a 8 core system.