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csaCompressionRatio
Cisco Compression Service Adapter Compression Ratio
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Current Compression ratio, the percentage the data was compressed. This is an instantaneous value. Compression ratio of 0% would indicate no compression, a compression ratio of 90% could mean 100 octets were compressed into 10 octets.
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