Hi,
Yes, gzip or bzip2 compress better, but they also: * Are a lot slower.
Yesterday I made a comparison regarding the speed of compress, bzip2 and gzip. And actually compress is much slower than gzip: $ dd if=/dev/random |compress -c > /dev/null 3883204 bytes/sec $ dd if=/dev/random |gzip -c > /dev/null 8357889 bytes/sec $ dd if=/dev/random |bzip2 -c > /dev/null 1042735 bytes/sec I also made a comparison between gzip and bzip2 regarding the compression ratio on a dump of my home directory (3.2GB) bzip2 took about 74min to compress, gzip only 11minutes. And in terms of compression ratio bzip2 was only 3% better than gzip. Best greet, Martin L. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
