On Aug 27, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Chris Frederick <cdf123 at cdf123.net> wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote, On 08/27/10 15:00:
>> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Mr. MailingLists wrote:
>>> dd if=/dev/random of=175MBFile bs=1024k count=175>
>>> scp 175MBFile chickenclucker:~/
>>> 175MBFile 100% 175MB 35.0MB/s 00:05
>>> scp -C 175MBFile chickenclucker:~/
>>> 175MBFile 100% 175MB 9.7MB/s 00:18
>>> 
>>> time gzip -c 175MBFile > 175MBFile.gz
>>> 12.513s
>>> 183500800 Aug 27 11:58 175MBFile
>>> 183