From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 22 18:59: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta3.snfc21.pbi.net (mta3.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B2F14A14 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:59:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jazepeda@pacbell.net) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org ([207.214.149.23]) by mta3.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FOR000F4PI7AR@mta3.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:58:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08EC918D3; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:56:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:56:32 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) In-reply-to: <200001230222.SAA18355@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> To: Don Lewis Cc: Akinori MUSHA aka knu , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Don Lewis wrote: > Doesn't bzip2 require a lot more memory for decompression? As I > recall, someone mentioned that this would cause problems for installing > releases on machines with only a small amount of RAM. man bzip2, and then look at the memory management section. I'm sure bzip2 takes more memory to encode/decode but I wonder how it compares when using -s. FWIW, I think that there are already problems with installing with less than 12mb ram in the first place (or so I've heard). - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message