Dale Ghent wrote: > On May 2, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > >> The files are between 15 and 50MB. It's worth pointing out that .wav >> files only compress by a few percent. > > Not entirely related to your maxed CPU problem, but.... > I don't think it was a maxed CPU problem, only one core was loaded and the prstat numbers I could get (the reporting period was erratic) didn't show anything nasty. > gzip on PCM audio isn't, as you point out, going to earn you much of a > compression ratio. It's also very very slow on this kind of data. If > you're looking to compress wav or other PCM-based audio formats for > storage space reasons, use FLAC.
I was looking at some mixed content, just an experiment. Ian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
