But speaking of single threadedness, more and more desktops are shipping with ridiculously more power than people need. Even a gamer really
Will the LZO compression code in reiser4 be able to use multi-processor systems? E.g. if I've a Turion-X2 in my laptop will it use 2 threads for compression/decompression making cpu throughput much better than whatthe disk could do?
lg Clemens 2006/8/30, Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Edward Shishkin wrote: > > (Plain) file is considered as a set of logical clusters (64K by > default). Minimal unit occupied in memory by (plain) file is one > page. Compressed logical cluster is stored on disk in so-called > "disk clusters". Disk cluster is a set of special items (aka "ctails", > or "compressed bodies"), so that one block can contain (compressed) > data of many files and everything is packed tightly on disk. > > > So the compression unit is 64k for purposes of your benchmarks.
