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Subject: Re: dump(8) very slow
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Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
>                                                 I gzip -2 the dump output on
>     the remote machine before it comes back through the ssh pipe.

Why not turn on compression in ssh (-C) rather than add an extra stage
to the pipeline?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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