Joshua Bahnsen <archrival@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am keeping track of 16 RHEL channels, using createrepo with the standard > gzip I am totaling 1.4 GB of metadata. How many arches is that for? > Compressing those same XML documents > with LZMA yields a total of 140 MB. That's 10x savings overall, I think > that's worth a look. Well, again, it'd depend on what it did _for the .sqlite_ files. As shipping the .xml files to the client machines is suboptimal in many ways. Doing some quick tests: CentOS-5 --------- primary.xml = 5.3M primary.xml.gz = 888K primary.xml.bz2 = 584K primary.xml.lz = 540K ...so I'm not sure how you get 10x. Although for the .sqlite data it seems to do a little better: Fedora-rawhide -------------- primary.sqlite = 37M primary.sqlite.gz = 12M primary.sqlite.bz2 = 8.5M primary.sqlite.lz = 6.8M filelists.sqlite = 66M filelists.sqlite.bz = 15M filelists.sqlite.bz2 = 13M filelists.sqlite.lz = 11M other.sqlite = 19M other.sqlite.gz = 6.5M other.sqlite.bz2 = 4.6M other.sqlite.lz = 2.8M ...which implies somewhere in the 25-35% savings range, but I doubt that's enough (on it's own) given the CPU/code requirements. -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
