Question

does any of you have some experience with compressing huge file in PHP using “gzcompress” ?
more efficient is compress the same file in a shell using tar ?
To be more exact :
such huge file is gzipped directly in PHP. PHP script is running via cron job everyday.
My intuition tells me this is slower than executing tar directly in a system shell.
But this is still my intuition only 🙂 Question is if it’s slower ? If yes than how big the differences can be ? Differences especially when we are talking about execution time.

Answer 1

It doesn’t seem like a PHP web job to me. Is this getting gzipped on demand for delivery or transfer? I would put that sort of thing in a queue for processing by a cron job in the shell.