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Re: xz archiver has a problem compressing a large volume in multithread mode
- From: "Tetsuji Rai via cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: L A Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:40:29 +0900
- Subject: Re: xz archiver has a problem compressing a large volume in multithread mode
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- Reply-to: Tetsuji Rai <tetsuji_rai at yahoo dot com>
On 11/14/2017 12:37, L A Walsh wrote:
> Tetsuji Rai via cygwin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have many music files, so I often archive music directory with "tar
>> -cJvf music.tar.xz music" with environment variable XZ_OPTS="-T 3" (I
>> have 4 threaded first generation i7). The archive is about 30GB.
>> Until some weeks ago it worked fine. However since I updated to the
>> latest version of cygwin64 some weeks ago, I have a trouble extracting
>> from that archive at some point. "tar -xJvf music.tar.xz" says "archive
>> file is corrupt" or something and quits. T
> ---
> Have you tried it with one xz thread?...
>
> BTW to compress/decompress w/xz, I usually use
> tar caf /tmp/archive.txz /music_archive to compress and
> tar xaf /tmp/archive.txz to uncompress
>
> (but those should be unrelated to your problem).
>
> I just tried "-T 3" on my version of tar and with "xz"
> and it doesn't make a difference in time, but does result
> in slightly larger file sizes -- which is characteristic
> of it using multiple threads. However, tar only produces
> 1 thread, so it never gets a chance to run things in multiple
> threads.
>
> Also --
>
> Besides, music isn't "real compressible" -- especially
> if you are compressing mp3 or flac, but the general purpose
> compression algorithms don't do a great job of compressing
> music.
>
> Compressing mp3->mp3+xz saved about 2.8%
> Compressing flac->flac+xz saved about 0.82% (<less than 1%)
>
> Compressing raw waves:
> xz files were 32% LARGER than flac.
>
> So what type of music are you compressing?
>
> BTW -- sending this to you in addition to list, since
> the list has been flakey for me recently -- seems to
> have a bug rejecting my domain.
>
>
>
Now I found single compression doesn't harm at all. Multithreaded
compression is the problem. Actually, compression of mp3 files doesn't
mean anything.....so I will just use tar for archive. It's much faster :)
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