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Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:44:23 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Narayan Venkat <narayan.venkat@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: cougar marketing wins
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On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:05:45 -0700 Narayan Venkat
<narayan.venkat@onstor.com> wrote:

> Forget the speed.  How about the compression?

The compression is showing 3:1, which is OK to pretty good.  But I feel
that some measure of the speed difference between compression and
no-compression should be measured.  Because that will be the immediate
next question from customers and channel partners: at what cost that
compression?

> Narayan Venkat
> Vice President, Marketing
> ONStor Inc. (www.onstor.com)
> Tel: (408) 963-2404
> Cell: (408) 221-4297
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:51 AM
> To: Narayan Venkat
> Subject: Re: cougar marketing wins
> 
> New update.  I discovered on Friday that I goofed up my last run,
> pointed it at the wrong place.
> 
> Now I discovered that I'm going to have to redo them all, as I tested
> the bandwidth to those leopards and somewhere they are bottlenecked at
> 10/100, even though John Rogers swore on a stack of bibles that they
> were gigabit.
> 
> I don't feel doing the tests with 10/100 connectivity speed is worth
> looking at.
> 
> a
> 
> 
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:31:29 -0700 Narayan Venkat
> <narayan.venkat@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > Andy,
> > 
> > Any update on your compression experiment?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Narayan Venkat
> > Vice President, Marketing
> > ONStor Inc. (www.onstor.com)
> > Tel: (408) 963-2404
> > Cell: (408) 221-4297
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Sharp 
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:09 PM
> > To: Narayan Venkat
> > Subject: cougar marketing wins
> > 
> > Hey, I'm just sayin'....
> > 
> > 
> > Here is the source directory:
> > 
> > \\md\Users\andys\public\dev
> > 
> > I removed all the .gif's, .jpg's, .gz's, .tgz's that I could find,
> > so the rest should be pretty compressible.  It's about 2.4 GB or
> > about 2.29 GiB.  I await your trials.
> > 
> > You should also try gzip-6 (gzip-9 is the default, BTW.  you might
> > have heard something different elsewhere) which should prove
> > interesting as it should give 90%-95% of the compression at about
> > 10% of the CPU time.  So a file that takes about 5 seconds to
> > compress with gzip-9 seems to take 0 seconds with gzip-6, but
> > compresses 95% as much.  Using level 6 gzip compression is one of
> > my secret weapons.
> > 
