Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:16:52 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>, "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again.. Message-ID: <20011218231652.A896@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.43.0112191104290.1276-100000@den2>; from juha@saarinen.org on Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:05:23AM %2B1300 References: <20011218225438.C1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> <Pine.WNT.4.43.0112191104290.1276-100000@den2>
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:05:23AM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote: > 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? bzip2 is slow. So, wait a little longer while booting the install floppy.. ;-) Should not hurt otherwise. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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