Description
Electric Make (emake) uses data compression to reduce network bandwidth
usage and data transfer times. Because data compression incurs a small
processing overhead, it should only be used when the file to transfer is
large enough that the benefits outweigh the cost. By default emake
compresses files when they are more than 128,000 bytes long, which gives
good performance in most environments. In rare circumstances, you may
wish to change the threshold — for example, if you have a very slow
network connection, it may make sense to lower the threshold in order to
further reduce network usage. You can control the threshold with the
--emake-compress command-line option. This option takes two integer
values separated by a forward slash, such as “50000/50000”. The number
before the slash gives the minimum file size for which to use
compression when sending files from emake to agents; the number after
the slash gives the minimum file size for which to use compression when
sending files from agents to emake.