Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:40:45 +0000 From: Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@freebsd.org> To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packages compressed with xz Message-ID: <AANLkTikUvDkw3o-mY1sCnkXQsVt10rUcVcqqbYN7oMvN@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CF439F1.6050703@gmx.de> References: <AANLkTimHL9_qj3nB0jCvH_rah5JZBzEroz_J_Ou-TH52@mail.gmail.com> <4CF38D7F.6070206@gmx.de> <4CF3F16E.3020501@DataIX.net> <4CF439F1.6050703@gmx.de>
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On 11/29/2010 23:40, Matthias Andree wrote: You can specify limits during compression, so the question is should we do that so that hosts with N MB of RAM can decompress packages? Do we retain the compression ratio over bzip2 if we limit compression memory to 512 MB so that decompression would be possible with, say, 128 MB? According to xz(1), in its default mode (-6), xz uses ~100MiB for compression and ~10MiB for decompression. That seems to be acceptable.
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