Re: speed of bzip2 versus gzip

2007-07-20 Thread r17fbsd
At 06:03 PM 7/20/2007, James Long wrote: Is it normal for bzip2 to be significantly slower than gzip? If not, where can I look for things that might be causing "bzip2 --fast" to take 50-60 times longer to compress a (sendmail log) file than gzip? In my experience, Yes -- It's dreadfully slow

Re: speed of bzip2 versus gzip

2007-07-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:50:20 -0700 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, it all depends on what your priorities are, too-- if what > you want is a final tarball which is being mirrored and downloaded > frequently, then your goal is to obtain the absolute best > compression, an

Re: speed of bzip2 versus gzip

2007-07-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:24:55 -0700 James Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:50:20PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Norberto Meijome wrote: > >>> Is it normal for bzip2 to be significantly slower than gzip? > >>> If not, where can I look for th

Re: speed of bzip2 versus gzip

2007-07-20 Thread James Long
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:50:20PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 20, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Norberto Meijome wrote: >>> Is it normal for bzip2 to be significantly slower than gzip? >>> If not, where can I look for things that might be causing >>> "bzip2 --fast" to take 50-60 times longer to compre

Re: speed of bzip2 versus gzip

2007-07-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 20, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Norberto Meijome wrote: Is it normal for bzip2 to be significantly slower than gzip? If not, where can I look for things that might be causing "bzip2 --fast" to take 50-60 times longer to compress a (sendmail log) file than gzip? i never measured it to see if it is

Re: speed of bzip2 versus gzip

2007-07-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:03:37 -0700 James Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it normal for bzip2 to be significantly slower than gzip? > If not, where can I look for things that might be causing > "bzip2 --fast" to take 50-60 times longer to compress a > (sendmail log) file than gzip? i never m

speed of bzip2 versus gzip

2007-07-20 Thread James Long
Is it normal for bzip2 to be significantly slower than gzip? If not, where can I look for things that might be causing "bzip2 --fast" to take 50-60 times longer to compress a (sendmail log) file than gzip? Thanks, Jim > ns : 07:52:06 /usr/tmp# time bunzip2 -c /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 > maillog >