Eh. Other than not liking it, is there a *problem* with the tarball getting larger?
We could also make 2 tarballs if you really care - one with the tests and one without. Sent from my PDA. No type good. On Sep 28, 2010, at 2:28 AM, "Brice Goglin" <brice.gog...@inria.fr> wrote: > The bz2 tarball of hwloc 1.0.2 was 2.1MB. hwloc 1.1 will be at least > 2.7MB. I know that bandwidth is free, but I am still not confortable > with the size increasing that much. > > Obviously, the problem comes from tarballs under tests/linux: > > 605774 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ppc-8n8s4t.tar.gz > 311293 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ppc-8n8s4t-nocache.tar.gz > 232021 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ppc-8n8s4t-nosys.tar.gz > 81856 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/48amd64-4d2n6c-sparse.tar.gz > 72906 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/96em64t-4n4d3ca2co.tar.gz > 72839 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/128ia64-17n4s2c.tar.gz > 53033 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/64fake-4n2s2ca2c2t.tar.gz > 41148 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ia64-64n2s2c.tar.gz > 29786 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/8em64t-4c2t.tar.gz > 23947 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ia64-64n2s2c.tar.gz.output > 20391 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ppc-8n8s4t-nocache.tar.gz.output > 20391 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ppc-8n8s4t.tar.gz.output > > > > Ideas: > 1) Remove useless tarballs: Some early machines are very simple and > likely covered by larger machines added later to the test suite. But > those early tarballs are small anyway, there's not much improvement to > expect there. > 2) The *extracted* size of the tarballs looks mostly related to > directory sizes (multiple of 4kB), I don't know if we can hope an > improvement inside the tarball for these, I assume that tar already > compresses them properly... > 3) Reduce duplication between variants: Have the test script remove some > parts of the extracted tarball directly instead of keeping multiple > variants of the same machines with/without some files. This one should > help, I'll work on it tonight. > 4) Remove some useless files from the tarballs. Assuming we know what > we'll need in the future... there's likely something to remove under the > topology, cache, and device-tree directories. > 5) Stop distributing tarballs. having them in SVN is useful. I am not > sure about this one, maybe wait for some users to actually complain > about the tarball size :) > 6) Try to generate some of our huge tarballs manually. Any intern to do > this? :) > > Any other idea? > > Brice > > _______________________________________________ > hwloc-devel mailing list > hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-devel
