On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 05:47:13PM -0500, Charles Duffy wrote: > If CPU time is one of the major disincentives towards use of compression > -- any reason lzop wasn't included? Never heard of it before - if its useful to support it, then do send patches... > > $ time lzop <ramsave >ramsave.lzo > real 0m13.515s > user 0m7.500s > sys 0m1.340s > $ time gzip -c <ramsave >ramsave.gz > real 0m46.327s > user 0m37.690s > sys 0m1.360s > $ ls -lh ramsave ramsave.lzo ramsave.gz > -rw-rw---- 1 fvte fvte 707M Aug 26 22:26 ramsave > -rw-r--r-- 1 root fvte 282M Aug 27 17:48 ramsave.gz > -rw-rw---- 1 fvte fvte 330M Aug 27 17:47 ramsave.lzo Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list