/tags/pagespeed/ Recent content in PageSpeed on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:32:33 +0000 /2012/03/26/pigz-parallel-gzip/ Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:32:33 +0000 /2012/03/26/pigz-parallel-gzip/ <p>Here is a short description of pigz:</p> <blockquote> <p>pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of <a class="zem_slink" title="Gzip" href="http://www.gzip.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank">gzip</a>,<br> is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits<br> multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.</p> </blockquote> <p>And for the installation:</p> <pre class="brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1">sudo yum install pigz</pre> <p>With pigz, if you don’t have many things running on your <a class="zem_slink" title="Multiprocessing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessing" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">multi processor</a> machine then you will see a significant improvement when you are gzipping the files.</p>