The term “load average” is used in many Linux/UNIX utilities. Everybody knows that the numbers the term “load average” refers to, usually three numbers, somehow represent the load on the system’s CPU. In this post I’ll try to make these three numbers clearer and more understandable.
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Month: July 2008
rzip vs. bzip2 – A short comparison
I decided to benchmark rzip against bzip2 for my backup needs. The benchmark was performed on an 89M tar archive of a directory that I regularly back up using my Amazon S3 backup script. The directory contains mostly LaTeX, PDF, and OpenOffice files, so this benchmark may reflect very different results from what you would get if you tested it on other kinds of files.
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