On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:58:07AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:18 -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
> > Nope it isn't.  One is for the index, one for the data.  I had the same 
> > 'huh?!' question (sort of) a while back since I do client side compression 
> > and still had gzip's running ;)
> 
> Ahhh, that makes sense then. Alright, I've got to beef up my AMANDA
> server, because it's struggling along with just those 4 gzips, and I
> want to have 4 dumpers going simultaneously all the time.

"fast" rather than "best" might make a big difference

Wishlist item:  allow for compress "normal" as well as best and fast.
It often strikes a good balance between the slight extra compression
of best and its markedly greater cpu usage.

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