Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:41:00 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro> Cc: Satoshi the Wraith Asami <asami@freebsd.org>, obrien@nuxi.com, ache@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin Makefile ports/news/tin/files md5 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9903292339360.26547-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990329163435.17526K-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
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On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote:
> BTW, I hear bzip has it's own disadvantages, like it's a big memory
> consumer (heard that it might not uncopress if enough memory isn't
> available ?)...
There exists the -s (--small) flag to bzip2 which limits memory use ("at most
2500k"). I don't know how this compares to the memory usage of gzip, and
whether or not it has any impact on the output of the compressor..
Kris
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