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I suppose the real problem is that "gzip" is a single-threaded application (and probably has to be). So each "gzip"-process will have a natural maximum operation speed which is how fast one CPU can...

My suggestion would be to spell it 'please', not 'pls'.

File I/O, to a disk, doesn't really care about block size as much as raw tape I/O would -- especially since compressing it with -z is going...

Hi,

we also use gtar as backup tool and were able to achieve a better performance/throughput with a larger blocking factor (eg '-b 1024').

Regards

If computers had a "go faster" setting, everyone would be already using it.

Are your disks organized in such a way that splitting the job in 5 makes it better, or worse?