On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:34:57AM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote: > Increase the default compression level to 9 from 6. > > This also increases decompression memory requirements > from 9 MB to 65 MB. ok, that's still tiny compared to memory used by gcc to actually compile libvirt > --- > The resulting tarball is 880 kB smaller [10.5 MB] > Level 8 requires 33 MB and saves 520 kB [10.8 MB] > Level 7 requires 17 MB and saves 170 kB [11.2 MB] > Compression time is not much different since we're already using --extreme. That's ok then. > > The Linux kernel also uses -9, but the tarball is 8x our size. > > cfg.mk | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk > index e93114c..ebafb0f 100644 > --- a/cfg.mk > +++ b/cfg.mk > @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ > # along with this program. If not, see > # <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. > > +XZ_OPT ?= -9e > +export XZ_OPT The cfg.mk is for controlling gnulib syntax-check code. This should be part of Makefile.am Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list