12 Nov 2015

Pigz - Parallel GZip

For a while, I've been frustrated with the fact that GZip was unable to consume idle CPUs on my laptop. Recently read about PIGZ (a drop-in GPL replacement) that implicitly consumes all CPUs.

Pronounced Pig-Zee, PIGZ is a drop-in replacement for GZIP and automatically consumes all CPUs of the host machine in order to get the compression completed much faster.

OLD: tar -cf - sourcefolder | gzip > sourcefolder.tar.gz

NEW: tar -cf - sourcefolder | pigz > sourcefolder.tar.gz

Enjoy!

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