Solaris 11.4 SRU45 (May 2022) - zstd compression utility

Solaris 11.4.45 includes now the zstd compression utility.

-bash-5.1$ zstd -V
*** zstd command line interface 64-bits v1.5.0, by Yann Collet ***

To compare I have a Oracle DB19c home as a tar file.
I executed this tests on a SPARC S7 LDom with 1 core

# ls -lh 19c.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       6.66G May 23 17:36 19c.tar

zstd does a higher compression compared to lz4, but takes
more time.

# time zstd 19c.tar -o 19c.tar.zstd
19c.tar              : 39.24%   (7153274368 => 2806612298 bytes, 19c.tar.zstd)

real    3m26.408s
user    3m29.804s
sys     0m6.698s


# time lz4 19c.tar
Compressed filename will be : 19c.tar.lz4
Compressed 7153274368 bytes into 3629706666 bytes ==> 50.74%

real    2m35.092s
user    2m25.227s
sys     0m6.852s

# ls -lh 19c.tar.lz4 19c.tar.zstd
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       3.38G May 23 17:36 19c.tar.lz4
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       2.61G May 23 18:14 19c.tar.zstd

With decompression zstd is a bit faster than lz4.

# time unlz4 19c.tar.lz4
Decoding file 19c.tar
19c.tar.lz4          : decoded 7153274368 bytes

real    2m9.913s
user    1m23.008s
sys     0m8.339s


# time unzstd 19c.tar.zstd
19c.tar.zstd        : 7153274368 bytes

real    1m52.263s
user    1m1.836s
sys     0m9.236s

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU45 (May 2022)

Every month after the CPU (Critical Patch Update) Oracle releases
a new feature Release for Oracle Solaris.

In May 2022 it is again a BIG one

Kernel Zone Memory Live Reconfiguration (MLR) on SPARC
ZFS File Retention
vmstat uses sstore for history
packet filter (PF) filewall for Solaris 10 Branded Zones
Zstandard (zstd) fast compression utility
NTP Monitor only mode (new SMF ntp:monitor)
PHP: version 8.1 added and version 7.3 removed
Puppet: version 6.26 added / version 5 and Puppet Master removed

and many, many more FOSS updates

Stay tuned for more blogs about this new features