poor uucp performance - help! (LONG)

[david nugent]

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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