From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 18 14: 5:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D9837B405 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (helo=den2) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Red Hack)) id 16GSMX-0002vc-00; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:05:25 +1300 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:05:23 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time) From: Juha Saarinen To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again.. In-Reply-To: <20011218225438.C1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: juha@vimfuego.saarinen.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > bzip2 has been around for a while and has been shipped since > 4.4-RELEASE. :) When I see the constant "who put another > three KB into the kernel and thus broke release?" against the > "9KB plus for the loader versus 40KB gain for the kernel" > switching to bzip2 should give some room to breath(sp?). Is there much difference in speed between the compression methods? That is, would bzip2 be an issue on older, low-spec machines? -- Juha Take off every sig! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message