Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:51:10 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/sparc64/conf GENERIC src/sys/amd64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20031210035110.GA34772@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3FD65A5D.6060407@acm.org> References: <200312072352.hB7Nqsw6011333@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031208190305.GA956@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20031209070020.GC59494@perrin.nxad.com> <20031209165827.GA18959@dragon.nuxi.com> <3FD65A5D.6060407@acm.org>
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:27:25PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:00:20PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > > >>... Moving from gzip to bzip2 for the base files reduces the > >>current size of the base files by about 13-22%. > > > >I've been trying to move us to bzip2 for the base distribution files > >since 4.6 (2 years now). RE has blocked it before ... > > Two observations: > 1) bunzip2 requires almost 4MB of memory, > compared to gunzip's 600KB. There is no way FreeBSD 5.x will be usable on systems that this amount of RAM usage would make a matter to.
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