Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:46:47 -0800 From: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Message-ID: <20000123194647.A5472@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200001230926.KAA81850@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from Oliver Fromme on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:26:48AM %2B0100 References: <86duop$2n8d$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200001230926.KAA81850@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:26:48AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > (I once tried to compress our FreeBSD ISO images with bzip2, > just to compare the space savings with gzip. I aborted the > experiment after 6 hours (!). gzip took about 30 minutes. > Consequently, bzip2 was considered unusable and went into the > trash can.) Am I the only one that uses UNIX as a multitasking OS? nice the bzip2 process by 20 and background it. Geez. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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