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  2. JDK-5043044

GZIPOutputStream doesn't scale on 4way Windows systems

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      The customer figured out that GZIPOutputStreams from java.util.zip don't scale
      beyond 2 way Windows servers.
      On 4way servers the CPUs don't get used beyond ~50% and the throughput doesn't
      increase.

      The customer provided a test program.
      The test program is attached to the call.
      The test program creates a number of threads (8 in the current setting).
      These 8 threads start compressing typical http data. They sleep after each compression.
      The sleep time goes down over time.
      The reduced sleep time leads to a higher system load and a higher throughput.

      The benchmark shows that it doesn't scale on a Windows 4 way system.
      Tests on Sparc Solaris systems showed that the scale a kind of up to 8 CPUs.
      The customer problem occur as well on 1.4.2 and tiger beta.

      The customer provided an alternative pure Java implementation (jazzlib) which
      is doing much better.

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              sherman Xueming Shen
              stschnei Stefan Schneider (Inactive)
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