Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:20:02 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Hall, Charles V" <Charles.Hall@Nav-International.com> Cc: "'freebsd-performance@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Compression performance Message-ID: <4149BD32.9010905@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1188E2959811D511B35600508B63A90B0B25489F@CANXSPN2.can.navistar.com> References: <1188E2959811D511B35600508B63A90B0B25489F@CANXSPN2.can.navistar.com>
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Hall, Charles V wrote: > I'm running 4.10 prod on an Intel P4 and I want to maximize compression > (i.e. /usr/bin/compress) performance--this seems to be my current > bottleneck. > > What steps can I take to accomplish this? (ZLIB, FPU support, anything > else?) Try using 'gzip --fast' instead of 'compress', assuming you are concerned with minimizing the CPU time required to compress files. These types of compression algorithms use integer operations almost exclusively; the FPU isn't used significantly. -- -Chuck
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