On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Ian Collins wrote: > What did you expect? A 3GHz Opteron core takes about a minutes to > attempt to compress a 1GB .mkv file. So your P3 would probably take > between 5 and 10 minutes. Now move that to the kernel and your system > will crawl. High gzip compressions are only really feasible on fast > multi-core systems (the compression is threaded).
The gzip manual pages says that the default compression level for gzip is -6. Experimentation will show that the compression ratio does not increase much at -9 so it is not worth it when you are short on time or CPU. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
