Garrett D'Amore wrote: > James Carlson wrote: >> Garrett D'Amore writes: >> >>> I believe that this case represents a linux familiarity case. While >>> I >> >> And I don't. In offline discussion with the submitter, it apparently >> has a substantial and time-sensitive business case behind it. It's >> not just your run-of-the-mill SFW dump job. >> >> > > Well maybe the submitter would like to enlighten the rest of us then.
A Sun customer is experiencing problems using bzip2 (single threaded written in C) to upload crash-cores. It can take them several hours to compress a 20GB core-dump on a T2000 (CMT). Parallel compression (using pbzip2 written in C++) provides great relief in this matter. An RFE (#6731129) was opened in Bugster to track this. The intent was to integrate pbzip2 as part of the SFW consolidation. For the above reason, we didn't consider this a Linux familiarity project.
