poor uucp performance - help! (LONG)
david nugent
david at csource.oz.au
Sat Feb 24 16:30:45 AEST 1990
In a message of <Feb 23 23:18>, Bret Orsburn writes:
>In article <1990Feb17.063412.18455 at rancho.uucp> (Rock Kent) writes:
>>
>>4. Make sure that you have compression turned off. You don't want to
>> be compressing already compressed news batches.
>>
>
>OK, I'll bite: Why not?
>
>Surely, compression will be less effective the second time, but is there
>any good reason to disable it? Do you have any data to demonstrate that
>throughput is *decreased* by enabling compression for acompressed
>newsfeed?
Try it sometime ... you'll soon see the difference. :-)
Yes indeed - the speed does drop. This places some overhead on the transfer speed 'blazer to 'blazer since compression requires processing. Also when compression is applied on a 16-bit compressed file, it will most often EXPAND the file in question.
david
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