From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 18 14:17:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB4837B405 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:17:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBIMGqu00919; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:16:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:16:52 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Juha Saarinen Cc: Gerhard Sittig , "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again.. Message-ID: <20011218231652.A896@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20011218225438.C1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from juha@saarinen.org on Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:05:23AM +1300 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 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