Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:56:32 -0700 From: "Kelly Hall" <khall@stbernard.com> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "tar -c|gzip" faster than "tar -cz"?!? Message-ID: <00C5463E8A5F7C41A8396D701A6734B1601F29@mail01.stbernard.com>
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> From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> > Subject: Re: "tar -c|gzip" faster than "tar -cz"?!? > > The tar|gzip command uses 18% less CPU and is 10% faster. It > is clear the HDD is the bottleneck. Now it's clear to me :) This makes sense if tar is single-threaded: there's only one thread of execution, and it can either be waiting on the disk, or compressing data. With two processes, gzip can compress while tar blocks on disk IO. Maybe the rest of you figured this out immediately, but it took my coffee a while to take effect ;) Kelly
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