From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 19 11:12:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailg.telia.com (mailg.telia.com [194.22.194.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1359C37B41A for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:12:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailg.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBJJCnn09761 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:12:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA17054 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:12:44 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 3569 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Dec 2001 19:12:41 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:12:41 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Mike Smith Cc: Juha Saarinen , Gerhard Sittig , "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again.. Message-ID: <20011219191240.GA3505@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Smith , Juha Saarinen , Gerhard Sittig , "stable@freebsd.org" References: <200112182314.fBINEUO03453@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112182314.fBINEUO03453@mass.dis.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:14:30PM -0800, Mike Smith 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 expensive in the compression pass; I don't think decompression is > much different though. bzip2 is slower and uses more memory than gzip for decompression too. I think using bzip2 instead of gzip might be painful on old low-end machines. (Low-end here defined as 386/486 class machines with 16MB RAM or less.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message