Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: new ftp backend slower...

[Nicolas Aspert]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>> Replying to myself, I have found the reason for the performance hit in
>> recent versions. It seems related to the compression options given to
>> gpg: bzip2+level 9 is much to high. Reverting to zlib with default level
>> reduced backup time by a factor 2 (25 hours to ~ 13 hours).
> 
> That was fixed in the 0.4.3 release (Aug 20th).  I added a --gpg-options
> option for folks that want to use bzip2 instead of zlib.
> 

Hm I guess you misread :)
I was already using 0.4.3 and found it slow because of the default
options so forcing zlib compression and default level through
--gpg-options solved my problem. I guess bzip2+level 9 requires too much
cpu to process my 120+GB of data.

Best regards