From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 06:11:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12619 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 06:11:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12613 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 06:11:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id PAA15627 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:11:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id B14C714BE; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:03:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:03:16 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip? Message-ID: <19981205150316.A18846@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199812042331.AAA02402@oranje.my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.16i In-Reply-To: ; from Sascha Schumann on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 01:02:23AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#4856 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Sascha Schumann: > If you have an archive and your focus is on saving storage, go with it. > Its compression algorithm is much slower compared to gzip, but also > more effective. You see it yourself on the egcs site. Note though, that bzip2 uses a LOT more memory than gzip and by lot I mean in order of at least 5 MB for compression/decompression, generally more around 7 MB. Gzip is around .5 MB. > It would be interesting to know how much traffic a busy site like > ftp.cdrom.com or sunsite could save, if they would completely stick to > bzip2. On these machines, you don't want to enable automatic bzip2 compression :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov 8 01:22:20 CET 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message