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You tried it, although it was just released today? since it does everything in memory it dragged my system into a swapping hell Well, it just keeps pending bl
by neilc 18y ago
You tried it, although it was just released today?
since it does everything in memory it dragged my system into a swapping hell
Well, it just keeps pending blocks in memory. It should be quite easy to bound the worst-case memory consumption (at some cost to parallelism), as they note in the article.
- wheels 18y agoI assumed it was the same as this: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ Though looking again, it seems like it's a separate implementation.
- evgen 18y ago> You tried it, although it was just released today? The version from clik was released today. Parallel bzip2 has been around for at least a couple of years. In fact, just doing a search for parallel bzip2 will lead you right to both an SMP/threaded version as well as one that uses MPI. I am guessing this is what was being referred to regarding the memory-consumption issues.