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On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately very slow - around 8 minutes to zip a 7GB dir using the
> command line zip vs. 13 seconds with the python zipfile module.

13 seconds? That sounds wrong for 7GB. I doubt you can deflate that
much data that quickly on any modern system. Check if it's actually
doing what you think it is.

ChrisA