compressing files - results

 
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HotelRoom2
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Joined: 22 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:42 pm    Post subject: compressing files - results Reply with quote

my fastcgi.log was 42.991 mb's so i need to compress and i was very bored so..

heres some results (highest compression first)

z7.gz (normal compress) took less then 40 seconds - size 45 kb's
bz2 (normal compress) took nearly 7 minutes - size 47 kb's
z7 (normal compress) took less then 20 seconds - size 57 kb's
gz (normal comprees) took about 1 minute - size 229 kb's
tar.gz (normal compress) took about 1 minte - 229 kb's
zip (normal compress) took less then 20 seconds - size 229 kb's
tar (normal compress) took 50 seconds - size 42.992 mb's
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Beomage
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Joined: 08 Feb 2007
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:01 am    Post subject: Re: compressing files - results Reply with quote

HotelRoom2 wrote:
my fastcgi.log was 42.991 mb's so i need to compress and i was very bored so..

heres some results (highest compression first)
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tar (normal compress) took 50 seconds - size 42.992 mb's


tar came out bigger on a text file??
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Yami King
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

probably only the space on the disk will be smaller.

BTW, where's .rar ? :D
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aprelium
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Joined: 22 Mar 2002
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:53 pm    Post subject: Re: compressing files - results Reply with quote

Beomage wrote:
tar came out bigger on a text file??


Tar does not compress files. It only package them in a single archive. The extra size you've noticed is the place taken by the filenames contained in the package.
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