Bug#501456: dpkg: parallel compression and decompression

2023-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2022-12-31 at 13:33 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > What about now given that #956452 has been closed? That bug/patch seems to have added parallel xz decompression, which is a good start, but this bug requests parallel compression and parallel decompression for other

Bug#501456: dpkg: parallel compression and decompression

2022-12-31 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 2020-04-09 19:43:34 [+0800], Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:45:49 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > > Can this be closed? > > Since the patch and feature hasn't been merged, I don't think so. What about now given that #956452 has been closed? Sebastian

Bug#501456: dpkg: parallel compression and decompression

2020-11-24 Thread Adrien CLERC
Hi, I would also stress that on recent desktop/laptop, having at least 4 cores is more than common. So parallel decompression is important to speed up installations. As an example, I tried to use xz and pixz to extract data.tar.xz on a tmpfs from

Bug#501456: dpkg: parallel compression and decompression

2020-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:45:49 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > Can this be closed? Since the patch and feature hasn't been merged, I don't think so. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#501456: dpkg: parallel compression and decompression

2020-04-09 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Can this be closed? Sebastian

Bug#501456: dpkg: parallel compression and decompression

2014-06-08 Thread Guillem Jover
[ CCing Raphael as showing interest off-list, CCing Jonathan for input on liblzma MT-support. ] Hi! On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 23:08:08 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.22 Severity: wishlist For those with systems with multiple CPUs, it would be nice if dpkg could support

Bug#501456: dpkg: parallel compression and decompression

2014-04-03 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, At the buildd: 22477 buildd30 10 97752 93m 420 R 100.2 2.5 26:15.31 dpkg-deb -Zxz --build debian/libwebkitgtk-3.0-0-dbg .. 26 minutes and counting compressing a dbg package. The buildd is quadcore, so considerable amount of time could be saved with parallel

Bug#501456: dpkg: parallel compression and decompression

2008-10-07 Thread Paul Wise
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.22 Severity: wishlist For those with systems with multiple CPUs, it would be nice if dpkg could support multi-threaded decompression and compression. Here are some implementations and possible hints to implementations of these: gzip: http://www.c10n.info/archives/505