Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:49:07 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again.. Message-ID: <20011219154907.A82773@peitho.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <20011219152358.S16371-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> References: <20011219191240.GA3505@student.uu.se> <20011219152358.S16371-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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--sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <trimming the CC's> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:29:53PM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Erik Trulsson wrote: >=20 > >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.) >=20 > While this may /Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc/ there isn't a linux distro in > existence that doens't use bzip2 to compress their bloated default > kernel. Linux is also touted as the savior of (among other things) Are you sure Linux uses bzip2? According to the docs (linux/Documentation/kbuild/commands.txt): Note: the difference between 'zImage' files and 'bzImage' files is that 'bzImage' uses a different layout and a different loading algorithm, and thus has a larger capacity. Both files use gzip compression. The 'bz' in 'bzImage' stands for 'big zImage', not for 'bzip'! --=20 Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iEYEARECAAYFAjwg/UMACgkQObaG4P6BelBLwgCfXsVjl9Vz2SsrrCkteDvcFxPk c68AmQHA3vLfAxdVp7zBCSTUS1SGmUCC =MEc5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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