What is the default compression level for local synchronisation?
Kevin Korb
kmk at sanitarium.net
Sun Oct 4 12:45:29 UTC 2015
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You should not use compression at all on local copies. It is nothing
but wasted CPU cycles.
On 10/04/2015 08:06 AM, Charles wrote:
> Searching the 'net showed that rsync asks zlib to use default
> compression which is equivalent to --compress-level=6
> (http://samba.2283325.n4.nabble.com/what-is-the-default-value-for-comp
ress-level-tp2538905.html)
>
>
but that would not be a good choice for local synchronisation.
>
> Should we use --compress-level=0 for local synchronisation? We
> are using rsync 3.0.9 and 3.1.1.
>
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