I was more after the 45MB of disk space as my disk is full and I was looking for low-hanging disk-space to cull!
With an emptied the disk cache: $ time cat %gconf-tree.xml > /dev/null real 0m0.985s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.013s $ time gunzip -cd %gconf-tree.xml.gz > /dev/null real 0m0.131s user 0m0.054s sys 0m0.003s -- cope with and use gzipped XML gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree-*.xml https://launchpad.net/bugs/58289 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
