On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> writes: > Could you please giva a usage scenario? Compressing a database backup file of size 300GB. > Is the task really CPU bound and not i/o bound? "top -d 1" tells me that CPU usage is 800%. (BTW, have you ever met with an input file that is not CPU bound, but I/O bound -- discarding specifically generated worst-case scenario inputs.) Regards.