On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:27:53PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > While doing some performance tuning of a backup script > I noticed that the -z option of our (bsd)tar behaves in > a very suboptimal way. It's not only a lot slower than > using gzip separately, it also compresses worse. [snip]
I can't replicate this on DragonFly with our version of bsdtar and the gzip-on-top-libz. At least the later is measurable faster and gives better compression than GNU gzip. build# time bsdtar -czf test.tgz contrib/gcc-3.4 2.898u 0.067s 0:03.12 94.5% 204+92k 0+58io 0pf+0w build# time sh -c "bsdtar -cf - contrib/gcc-3.4 | gzip > test2.tgz" 2.928u 0.099s 0:03.57 84.3% 75+80k 0+58io 0pf+0w build# ls -l test*.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7430189 Oct 10 22:48 test.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7430189 Oct 10 22:48 test2.tgz Joerg _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
