On 1/14/2013 10:44 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, John Drescher wrote: > >> I would say this is a combination of filesystem performance ( remember >> that when you backup there can be a lot of seeks that reduce >> performance) and decompression performance. Decompression is less CPU >> intensive than compression. > Ah yes, you're right. A gunzip on some test files is indeed 4-5 times > faster than a gzip on the same data. I never noticed that big a difference > before. >
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