From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Parallel (de-)compression
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:44:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twnyi889.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151202184550.GA5741@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 2 Dec 2015 19:45:50 +0100")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> on my relatively slow ARM build machine with relatively fast storage (SSD),
> I notice that often there is an xz process taking 100% of CPU, while there
> is never more than 20MB/s written to disk. For instance, texlive-texmf
> takes a very long time to build and install into the store.
Are you saying that xz-compressing TeX Live to resend it to
hydra.gnu.org is too CPU-intensive?
> Would it make sense to switch to a parallel (de-)compression tool to leverage
> higher numbers of cores? We have pbzip2 already in Guix, which is compatible
> with bzip2.
Bzip2 provides a CPU/compression ratio tradeoff that is not as good as
xz, so I would avoid it.
Another option would be to trade compression ratio for reduced CPU usage
by using, say, ‘xz -2’ or ‘gzip’.
We did something similar in 5ef9d7d to reduce CPU consumption on the
front-end. Usually it’s much less important to reduce CPU consumption
on the build machines, but your experience seems to suggest otherwise.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-04 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-02 18:45 Parallel (de-)compression Andreas Enge
2015-12-02 18:52 ` Andreas Enge
2015-12-02 19:18 ` Efraim Flashner
2015-12-04 14:44 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-12-06 15:31 ` Andreas Enge
2015-12-06 22:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
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