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Date:      Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:05:23 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
From:      Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
To:        Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
Cc:        "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again..
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.43.0112191104290.1276-100000@den2>
In-Reply-To: <20011218225438.C1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org>

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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?

-- 
Juha
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