Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Eduard Bloch dijo [Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:57:33PM +0100]: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eduard Bloch bl...@debian.org * Package name: pigz Version : 2.1.4 Upstream Author : Mark Adler mad...@alumni.caltech.edu * URL : http://www.example.org/ *

Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:49 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : Sounds like a plan, but I don't feel very comfortable to do that in the Debian package. Let me explain why: - sched_setaffinity method seems to be Linux specific How is that a problem? You only need to use it in Linux builds.

Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Guus Sliepen [Sun, Jan 04 2009, 10:45:23AM]: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:57:33PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: PS: I plan to hack it a little bit and use syssconf function on Debian systems to determine the real number of CPU cores (#x) since pigz's default value is 8 which

Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:57:33PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: PS: I plan to hack it a little bit and use syssconf function on Debian systems to determine the real number of CPU cores (#x) since pigz's default value is 8 which is much more than home systems have nowadays, and the performance

Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 16:07:25 +0100, a écrit : Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:49 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : Sounds like a plan, but I don't feel very comfortable to do that in the Debian package. Let me explain why: - sched_setaffinity method seems to be Linux

Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 janvier 2009 à 00:38 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : Sure, but that should be only a user-explicitely-wanting thing. I would really not like to see pigz systematically bind threads. What if I e.g. want to run several pigz processes at the same time because I have a lot of cores

Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Mon 05 Jan 2009 00:20:42 +0100, a écrit : Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 23:45:22 +0100, a écrit : It’s already the case in HPC environments, and CPU pinning is certainly going to be used more widely as the number of cores increases. And that's a shame. Linux

Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eduard Bloch bl...@debian.org * Package name: pigz Version : 2.1.4 Upstream Author : Mark Adler mad...@alumni.caltech.edu * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : ZLib license Programming Lang: C Description :