TechTip: Possible savings from SMP Aware Compression Utilities

Mapping possible Space and Time savings by using SMP aware (threaded) compression Utilities ?

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1. Mapping possible Space and Time savings by using SMP aware (threaded) …
   1. Content
   2. Role of Archivers and Compression in our Testing
   3. Can we use power of SMP for Space and Time savings ?
      1. I use this summary archivers pages to find not SMP aware compressors for …
   4. Parallelized compressor implementations
   5. Well Known Compressor and Archiver implementations for comparison
   6. Speed and Size test results
      1. Test result from ltore (FLAR cpio based) backup / restore used for Solaris
      2. Test result from R2 (disk partitions based) backup / restore used for …
      3. Test result analysis
         1. Parallel compressions implementations
         2. PIPE and kernel clock optimizations in R2
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