From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 12 18:56:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261A916A47C for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:56:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C60CE43D98 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:56:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 5361 invoked by uid 399); 12 Oct 2006 18:56:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?156.154.4.85?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Oct 2006 18:56:39 -0000 Message-ID: <452E8FDF.4050003@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:56:31 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kientzle@FreeBSD.ORG, olli@lurza.secnetix.de References: <200610121524.k9CFOOmS069191@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200610121524.k9CFOOmS069191@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "tar -c|gzip" faster than "tar -cz"?!? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:56:53 -0000 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 -- This .signature sanitized for your protection