Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:56:32 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001221855390.4454-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200001230222.SAA18355@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Don Lewis wrote: > Doesn't bzip2 require a lot more memory for decompression? As I > recall, someone mentioned that this would cause problems for installing > releases on machines with only a small amount of RAM. man bzip2, and then look at the memory management section. I'm sure bzip2 takes more memory to encode/decode but I wonder how it compares when using -s. FWIW, I think that there are already problems with installing with less than 12mb ram in the first place (or so I've heard). - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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