Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:14:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> 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: <200112182314.fBINEUO03453@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> of "Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:05:23 %2B1300." <Pine.WNT.4.43.0112191104290.1276-100000@den2>
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> 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. btw, thanks to Gerhard for pointing out that I don't pay close enough attention to my commit mail. 8) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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