On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 03:32:38PM -0400, Jim Starkey wrote: > I did a performance study on this awhile back. ZLib decompression on a > 1.3 GHh Athlon was slower than reading it uncompressed, but I don't > think this means a great more than zlib is a suitable compression > scheme. Something faster at the cost of compression efficiency might do > the trick.
I fonud that the --fast option to gzip (least compression) made that difference and that's what we use for compressed backup (both in NDB and now in general MySQL online backup) -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

