Re: On the fly compression

On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 09:37:40AM +0000, Bertold Kolics wrote:
> First, examine a content of a cache. Typically, 70% of its content is
> GIF and JPG images and about 10% is textual files (HTML files, ftp
> directory listings, etc.).
> Is it worth implementing this feature?

        It's still a 20% saving. Here is a stupid test I just made on
a 780 MB spool:

$ tar cf - /var/spool/ww-cache/0* | gzip -9v >/dev/null
 20.7%

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