On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Joachim Berdal Haga wrote: > > Here's a test with "time gzip -[169] -c file >/dev/null". Random data > from /dev/urandom, kernel headers are concatenation of *.h in kernel > sources. All times in seconds, on my puny home computer (1GHz Via Nehemiah) That "Via Nehemiah" is probably a big part of it. I think the VIA Nehemiah just has a 64kB L2 cache, and I bet performance plummets if the tables end up being used past that. And I think a large part of the higher compressions is that they allow the compression window and tables to grow bigger. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html