Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [Detailed VM/time measurements] Thanks! > What I actually would like to know is which impact switching to > e.g. bzip2 or lzma compressed payloads would have on end-users. > > I.e. answers/input related to > * disk-space requirements > Would such step shrink the isos rsp. give room on isos? It should, but not by very much. > * end-user's throughput during downloads. > In the past, there have been claims, bzip2 compression would have > negative impacts on network-throughput because it would defeat > low-level compression on networks (e.g. modems, isdn). Is this claim > true, can it be verified, how about lzma and friends? This is probably nonsense, modems and such use a variant of the original compress(1), which won't be able to compress gzip(1)ed data any better than shiny-new-compression-ed data. > * rpm's installation times/memory requirement (time required for > decompression, memory being used during decompression). > bzip2 has quite bzip2(1) uncompression requires a lot more RAM and CPU than gzip(1). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
