Ubuntu
fusecompress package

  1. Bug #582943
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 582943

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs) wrote : Re: [Bug 582943] Re: fusecompress eats up memory when reading a file

On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:07:48 you wrote:
> copying a 3.2M ASCII file from the compressed folder to my home
> directory takes 1.37s, whereas copying it within my homedirectory only
> takes .006s.
>
> is this to be expected? I would have expected a much higher performance

Certainly not. Can you educate me on your setup ?
You mentioned that the box has 4G of memory. So I am assuming you must be
having a powerful CPU too. What is the kernel version you are using ?
Can you also attach the dmesg output when the bug is triggered ?

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