[ { "Id": "167824", "ThreadId": "50133", "Html": "Hello,
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\r\nI have written a small application that uses DotNetZip for zipping files. The program runs on a computer with 2-Core CPU. According to task manager during zipping CPU usage is 50% Does it mean that the library uses only one core? Is it possible for the library to use both cores?
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\r\nThanks. \r\n", "PostedDate": "2009-03-13T10:25:38.017-07:00", "UserRole": null, "MarkedAsAnswerDate": null }, { "Id": "167831", "ThreadId": "50133", "Html": "Yes, that is exactly what you are seeing.  There's an open work item to modify the library so that it exploits multiple cores and multiple processors.  http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=5183 
\r\nAnd also, there is ongoing work to improve the performance of the compressor.  \r\n", "PostedDate": "2009-03-13T10:44:07.657-07:00", "UserRole": null, "MarkedAsAnswerDate": null }, { "Id": "168082", "ThreadId": "50133", "Html": "What about using AForge.Net for parallel computations? It work on .Net framwork 2.0 I think it would be quite useful for users if the library uses multiple cores as nowadays most of the computers have multicore CPU
\r\n", "PostedDate": "2009-03-14T07:11:41.4-07:00", "UserRole": null, "MarkedAsAnswerDate": null }, { "Id": "170487", "ThreadId": "50133", "Html": "Thanks for the suggestion, I will check it out.
\r\nIn the meantime, I updated the workitem having to do with multi-core/multi-cpu optimization.  http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=5183 
\r\nThe short story is that I am doing some R&D work for parallelizing the deflation.  On my dual-core 1p machine I was about to reduce the compression time to roughly 55-58% of the time required in the single-threaded approach used in v1.7 od DotNetZip.
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\r\nThis is a pretty good jump in performance.  It would mean little to no change in the API of DotNetZip. 
\r\n", "PostedDate": "2009-03-21T23:10:22.13-07:00", "UserRole": null, "MarkedAsAnswerDate": null }, { "Id": "452453", "ThreadId": "50133", "Html": "Cheeso,\r\n\r\nI do love this library! It took very little time to get a utility up and running. By the way, is the DLL threadsafe? If I call t a dozen times from my own threads will it work correctly? I assume so.\r\n\r\nWhile I appreciate the use of multiple threads, it actually becomes a problem when used on servers. I am currently using it on a SQL Server machine with quad cores, and it maxes out all four cores. Obviously this is ... an issue. I am about to upgrade this server to one of those 8 or 12 core AMD procs and I truly do NOT want DotNetZip grabbing all 12 cores for compression. If you think about it, moving from 2 to 3 cores gives you a 50% speed bump (all else equal). Moving from 7 to 8 cores gives you only a 12% speed bump. Much less noticible or useful\r\n\r\nMy suggestion would be to give us a property to set the max threads. Then I could decide how many cores I want used for the zip operation.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I spent the weekend zipping up 200 gigs of stuff using the utility we wrote (using DotNetZip) and for my stuff got about an 80% compression. LOTS of room saved. Further we integrated DotNetZip into a process I run that exports huge SQL Server tables to CSV and imports back in the processed CSVs. These table processes leave behind gigabytes of text files that I need to archive (can't just delete) and now I am getting about 80% compression on those as well. \r\n\r\nAgain though, Kudos on what you have done! Really cool!\r\n\r\n", "PostedDate": "2010-06-07T07:05:28.18-07:00", "UserRole": null, "MarkedAsAnswerDate": null }, { "Id": "455416", "ThreadId": "50133", "Html": "

yes, the library is thread safe, but the ZipFile class is not threadsafe.

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Each instance of the ZipFile class should be used by only one thread.

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To limit the parallel compressing - consider setting ZipFile.ParallelDeflateThreshold to -1.  Check the documentation on that property for more info.

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I agree though - it would be nice to have an upper limit.

", "PostedDate": "2010-06-14T15:25:25.423-07:00", "UserRole": null, "MarkedAsAnswerDate": null }, { "Id": "455417", "ThreadId": "50133", "Html": "This discussion has been copied to a work item. Click here to go to the work item and continue the discussion.", "PostedDate": "2010-06-14T15:26:09.193-07:00", "UserRole": null, "MarkedAsAnswerDate": null } ]