"Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dd if=/dev/random of=testfile bs=1m count=5000
1. gzip isn't usually used to compress incompressible data. 2. use "time" to figure out how much CPU time it actually burns. 5 GB are somewhat I/O bound, but gcc options don't help with that, so CPU time is better than wallclock time. > gzip compiled with -O3: > # date ; nice -10 ./gzip -c9 testfile > testfile.gz ; date > Wed Aug 9 08:01:21 CDT 2006 -- Matthias Andree _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
