Le mercredi 22 août 2012 à 12:52 -0400, Gary Dale a écrit : > I find that .lzma does a pretty good job and isn't too slow.
My 2 cents: LZMA/LZMA2 is indeed a good choice if you want best compression: it should work with almost anything (except already compressed streams such as videos, images, sounds, obviously). For text files however, you could try the PPMd algorithm which performs equally well as LZMA but for a fraction of memory/time LZMA uses. But it sucks for almost everything else than text. A warning: xz -9e might increase a LOT the compression time for almost NO size reduction compared to the defaults. Also keep in mind that the compression algorithm uses more memory when the compression level increases: for big datasets, you will run out of memory if you are too greedy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1345713219.4552.8.ca...@p76-nom-gd.cnrs-imn.fr