Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:56:31 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: kientzle@FreeBSD.ORG, olli@lurza.secnetix.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "tar -c|gzip" faster than "tar -cz"?!? Message-ID: <452E8FDF.4050003@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200610121524.k9CFOOmS069191@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200610121524.k9CFOOmS069191@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote:
> In this case, the "real" time is much larger than the
> "user" time. I guess that's the overhead of 85677 files
> and 23399 directories (according to find(1)). :-)
Did you perform your tests once only with each method, and one right
after the other? If so, the effect you saw might be due to file system
caching.
Doug
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