[ARGUS] Best Hardware

[Andrew Pollock]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 07:37:15PM -0700, Peter Van Epp wrote:

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> 
> [test4:~] vanepp% time /usr/local/bin/ra  -r com_argus.2004.10.10.22.00.00.0.gz -nn >/dev/null
> 156.000u 150.690s 5:46.06 88.6% 0+0k 0+2io 0pf+0w
> 
> 	Which is a fair bit slower at post processing that the PCs (a new G5
> may do better). This is similar to previous times I've done this, a 600 Meg
> PC with less memory seems to do better on post processing (capture may be a
> different matter though).

Disk is cheap. I've always been of the opinion that it was faster for
processing to keep the logs around uncompressed for processing, to avoid the
overhead of having to run them through gzip. Come archiving time, compress
'em sure...

regards

Andrew