Re: 11gR2 rman compression algorithms

  • From: Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:49:02 -0500

Jeremy,

No, I'm not sure. I copied that text verbatim from the book. The MOS
note 563427.1 is probably the closest you're going to get to an
explanation. But, I bet Fritz or Tanel could demonstrate conclusively
exactly which compression algorithm is being used for each level using OS
utilities.

Seth Miller


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Jeremy Schneider <
jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote:
>
>>
>> *• HIGH: This level provides the best compression ratio, but consumes the
>> most CPU. (It corresponds to the GZIP compression.)*
>>
>
> Just noticed this - are you sure "gzip" is correct?  I think the gzip
> program actually uses the zlib library to do the compression, so that
> doesn't really make sense.
>
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