More Power

Last week, in “The Wonders of 7-zip” I discussed how enabling multi-thread support chopped my nightly backup zip times from 3 hours to just over 1 hours (actually 1.25 hours).

Today I ran the same process on a new server, which is sporting a single, but quad-core Xeon. It did the same job in 30 minutes. Wow!

The machine taking 75 minutes runs two hyper-threaded Xeons at a higher clock rate. So yeah, this will be a noticeable upgrade.

The wrinkle: The new server is running the x64 flavor of Windows 2003 and x64 7-zip. I’m wondering if that’s a factor in the speed increase as well?  This is my first foray into the 64-bit world.

Possibly Related posts:

  1. The Wonders of 7-Zip
  2. 7-Zip: Compression vs. Speed
  3. More Dabbling with File Compression Types
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