HotelRoom2 my fastcgi.log was 42.991 mb's so i need to compress and i was very bored so.. heres some results (highest compression first) z7.gz (normal compress) took less then 40 seconds - size 45 kb's bz2 (normal compress) took nearly 7 minutes - size 47 kb's z7 (normal compress) took less then 20 seconds - size 57 kb's gz (normal comprees) took about 1 minute - size 229 kb's tar.gz (normal compress) took about 1 minte - 229 kb's zip (normal compress) took less then 20 seconds - size 229 kb's tar (normal compress) took 50 seconds - size 42.992 mb's
Beomage HotelRoom2 wrote my fastcgi.log was 42.991 mb's so i need to compress and i was very bored so.. heres some results (highest compression first) ... tar (normal compress) took 50 seconds - size 42.992 mb's tar came out bigger on a text file??
aprelium Beomage wrote tar came out bigger on a text file?? Tar does not compress files. It only package them in a single archive. The extra size you've noticed is the place taken by the filenames contained in the package.