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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:27:25PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:00:20PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> >
> >>... Moving from gzip to bzip2 for the base files reduces the
> >>current size of the base files by about 13-22%.
> >
> >I've been trying to move us to bzip2 for the base distribution files
> >since 4.6 (2 years now).  RE has blocked it before ...
> 
> Two observations:
>  1) bunzip2 requires almost 4MB of memory,
>     compared to gunzip's 600KB.

There is no way FreeBSD 5.x will be usable on systems that this amount of
RAM usage would make a matter to.