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by Glenn Franxman, Django Developer / Stunt Programmer.
posted: 2008-10-04 08:10:26 perma-link, RSS comments feed
My Slicehost machine ran out disk space yesterday, so I was looking for logs to rotate, files to delete, etc and I ran across a few large groups of files that I wanted to keep. I tried gzip -9 like always, but then found myself wondering if I could get these files any smaller. A quick google turned me on to rzip. But as it turns out, rzip is extremely memory intensive and was completely consuming everything I had on this poor slice.
I could go though all of the files trying to decide which ones I really wanted, but that seemed like it would take too long. In the end, I fired up an ec2 instance on Amazon's Web Services, moved the files over, rzipped them there, moved the results back and reclaimed about a gig of disk space. It only took a few minutes, and cost me $0.14 from amazon.
That's just crazy. I wonder how long we have before that just becomes common practice.
Brian commented, on October 20, 2008 at 9:41 p.m.:
I use bzip2 - usually better compression depending upon the type of file.
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cliffe commented, on October 5, 2008 at 10:06 p.m.:
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