Thank you Sam. You are right its because of low processor speed. I found that there is pbzip2 for parallel zipping that will utilize every core of my CPU.
I did download and installed on my server from this site http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
compressing with this util now takes only 75 minutes...
Hardware : Sun T2000 Server with Sparc 1G
OS Solaris 10
I am trying to tar and gzip oracle database file with total size of 55 gb. The sun server takes almost 5 hours to finish this process. The server is not busy with anything else when i am running this command
tar cEf - . | gzip -c >...
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