bug#23107: new snapshot available: gzip-1.6.56-9190

2016-03-26 Thread Paul Eggert
Assaf Gordon wrote: It solves the problem on this system, but might introduce problems on other systems which don't support '-u' (or don't have sed). Yes, this is a problem, as older Unixes don't have 'diff -u'. Perhaps we should wait until a later gzip version before worrying too much about

bug#23113: parallel gzip processes trash hard disks, need larger buffers

2016-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Chevreux, Bastien wrote: > Hi there, > > I am using gzip 1.6 to compress large files >10 GiB in parallel (Kubuntu > 14.04, 12 cores). The underlying disk system (RAID 10) is able to deliver > read speeds >1 GB/s (measured with flushed file caches, iostat -mx 1 10