Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!csource!david From: david@csource.oz.au (david nugent) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: poor uucp performance - help! (LONG) Message-ID: <91.25E55174@csource.oz.au> Date: 24 Feb 90 05:30:45 GMT Organization: Unique Computing Pty Limited Lines: 28 In a message of , Bret Orsburn writes: >In article <1990Feb17.063412.18455@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 -- UUCP: ...!munnari!csource!david Internet: david@csource.oz.au FidoNet: 3:632/348