Hello Franck, On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 19:38:13 -0500 Franck Y <franck110@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I ve got a strange behavior with bz2 and gzip. > When i compress a small folder around 225 Mo the compression goes to > 49 Mo for gzip > 46 mo for bzip2 > > When i compress a bigger folder around 5 Go the compression goes to > 2.6 Go for gzip > 3.1 mo for bzip2 > > > Bzip2 has a better compress for Small folder and gzip has a better one > for big folder. > Has anyone of you has the same effect. > > Maybe gzip did'nt compress everything how can i check this. > Should i be worried. > It's mostly office document. > Happy new year, Define "better"? This might be a bit subjective, and I guess that you deal w/ the size criteria. Another critical factor in compression is.. time. bzip2 is *really* slower than gzip. Here, etc.tar.bz2 is 5.8MB but takes 17sec, and etc.tar.gz is 8MB.. in 4sec. Regards, -- wwp
