From: Sean M Clark <smcl...@tamu.edu> > xz/lzma is another consideration. At moderate compression levels, lzma > seems to be about the same or slightly faster than bzip2 with a little > better compression. At lower compression levels it seems like it's > about as fast as gzip while compressing noticeably farther - at least > in the small amount of testing I've done so far with the "xz" > implementation of lzma compression. > > (The small amount of testing I've done so far suggests to me that xz > with a compression level of 1 runs about as fast as gzip4 with > compression at or better than gzip7, approaching bzip2 for some types of > files. Cranking up to xz 6 or 7 runs a bit faster than bzip2 default > but tends to give better compression.)
Judjing by the following becnhmarks, lzma seems quite resource hungry... http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks.html JD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
