Op 12 jul. 2012 om 17:29 heeft Andrei Gherzan <and...@gherzan.ro> het volgende 
geschreven:

> Hello,
> 
> Koen suggested to add -T to xz commands. We have this option implemented in 
> our current version .1alpha. 
> 
> -T threads, --threads=threads                                                 
>                                                                               
>                                                                           
>               Specify the number of worker threads to use.  Setting threads 
> to                                                                            
>                                                                               
>     
>               a special value 0 makes xz use as many threads as there are  
> CPU                                                                           
>                                                                               
>      
>               cores  on  the system.  The actual number of threads can be 
> less                                                                          
>                                                                               
>        
>               than threads if the input file is not big enough  for  
> threading                                                                     
>                                                                               
>             
>               with  the  given  settings or if using more threads would 
> exceed                                                                        
>                                                                               
>         
>               the memory usage limit.
> 
> -------------------
> 
> Memory: 7.8 GiB
> Processor:: Intel® Core™ i5-2540M CPU @ 2.60GHz × 4
> 
> File to compress: 1.9G
> 
> xz -f -k -e -9 --check=crc32 (current configuration)
> Memory: 673Mb
> real    6m37.170s
> user    6m35.389s
> sys     0m0.884s
> Compressed file size: 3.4Mb
> 
> xz -f -k -e -9 -T 4 --check=crc32
> Memory: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> xz -f -k -e -8 -T 4 --check=crc32
> Memory: 1.8G
> real    3m24.462s
> user    12m8.502s
> sys     0m2.180s
> Compressed file size: 3.4Mb
> 
> xz -f -k -T 4 --check=crc32 (-e defaults to -6)
> Memory: 471Mb
> real    1m9.265s
> user    4m8.972s
> sys     0m0.944s
> Compressed file size: 3.4Mb
> 
> So my conclusion would be to use the default -e -6 with -T 4. 

Out of curiousity, what does -T0 give you?

regards,

koen


> 
> @g

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