This program parallelizes the BZIP2 compression process to achieve a near-linear performance increase on SMP machines. On a two-processor Xeon machine, the speedup is around 180%. The tool's main purpose is to aid performing heavy-duty server backup
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 1.0 posted on 2005-12-03
Several fixes and updates - Version 1.0 posted on 2005-12-03
Program Details
- Category: System Utilities > Other
- Publisher: bzip2smp.sf.net
- License: Free
- Price: N/A
- Version: 1.0
- Platform: linux