setting xz level to 2 seems reasonable but how about thinking about a better solution: Q: what put the gpg signatures ? A: rpmbuild (or something that call it like mock) so how about to make rpmbuild generate gpg and checksums on both uncompressed and uncompressed payloads so every rpm would carry the signatures and checksums if its payload is decompressed beside the typical signatures and checksums maybe this is not for F12 as it could require some changes in rpm, yum, deltarpm, ...etc. but this is the right thing > http://fedoratux.blogspot.com/2009/05/xz-compression.html the default is -6 we are talking about -2 could you please do your benchmarks at that level please -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list