-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 And I'll add that most rsync servers I've used usually keep things set at 7 for a balance between processor cost and compression rates. If processor cost is an issue for you, it pays to test a few of the compression levels out to see what's acceptable.
- -Francis Atom Smasher wrote: > On Tue, 24 May 2005, Per Tunedal Casual wrote: > > >>what are the maximum values for compression for zip, zlib and bzip2? The >>default is 6 for zlib according to the manpage. >> >>I would like to set a somewhat higher compression with: --compress-level > > ============== > > the range is 1-9. 1 is the fastest, 9 is the best compression. > > from the gzip man page: > Regulate the speed of compression using the specified digit #, > where -1 or --fast indicates the fastest compression method (less > compression) and -9 or --best indicates the slowest compression > method (best compression). The default compression level is -6 > (that is, biased towards high compression at expense of speed) > > and bzip2: > Set the block size to 100 k, 200 k .. 900 k when compressing. > Has no effect when decompressing. See MEMORY MANAGEMENT below. > The --fast and --best aliases are primarily for GNU gzip > compatibility. In particular, --fast doesn't make things > significantly faster. And --best merely selects the default > behavior. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCpG1XTJEaZCt0gQsRAszaAKCFmQIhRvLc+lMiENYkujlU22t3fACgvF5n IsFeWXUHlkexovt7S62ehR8= =AcW+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
