On 8/29/06, David Masover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Conversely, compression does NOT make sense if:
   - You spend a lot of time with the CPU busy and the disk idle.
   - You have more than enough disk space.
   - Disk space is cheaper than buying enough CPU to handle compression.
   - You've tried compression, and the CPU requirements slowed you more
than you saved in disk access.
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It's also not always this simple ... if you have a single threaded
workload that doesn't overlap CPU and disk well, (de)compression may
be free even if you're still CPU bound a lot as the compression is
using cpu cycles which would have been otherwise idle..

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