Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-16 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Tuesday 16 October 2007 14:31, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm with Al on this. 50 Mb for decompression? > > Embedded and small device folks will not love this, I'm sure. > > How often do you unpack the kernel sources on an embedded device? :) Oops

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 14:19, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >Sizes in Kb again: > >32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z >33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma > >P.S. sorting files by extension in tarball generally helps, but in case >of Linux kernel, they are all C code anyway, so no measurable gain there. Extension is not al

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-16 Thread Andreas Schwab
Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm with Al on this. 50 Mb for decompression? > Embedded and small device folks will not love this, I'm sure. How often do you unpack the kernel sources on an embedded device? :) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Pr

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-16 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Sunday 14 October 2007 21:58, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Al Viro wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> (Obviously we shall pick .7z) > > > > The hell it is. Take a look at memory footprint of those suckers... > > For compression

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 14 2007 16:58, Justin Piszcz wrote: compress: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 10544 war 20 0 700m 681m 1632 S 141 20.7 1:41.46 7z Just how you can utilize a CPU to 141% remains a mystery.. [

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 16:58, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > compress: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 10544 war 20 0 700m 681m 1632 S 141 20.7 1:41.46 7z Just how you can utilize a CPU to 141% remains a mystery.. [ to be noted this is sqrt(2)*100 ] - To unsu

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Al Viro wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: (Obviously we shall pick .7z) The hell it is. Take a look at memory footprint of those suckers... For compression with -mx=9 it does use 500-900 MiB of RAM, that is true. For decompressio

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > (Obviously we shall pick .7z) The hell it is. Take a look at memory footprint of those suckers... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordom

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 14 2007 15:53, Justin Piszcz wrote: What's with all these odd formats, and where is .zip? :) Somehow... have you tried lrzip? $ apt-cache search lrzip $ I tried most of the main ones in the standard testing distribution within Debian. De

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 15:53, Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >> What's with all these odd formats, and where is .zip? :) >> Somehow... have you tried lrzip? > $ apt-cache search lrzip > $ > > I tried most of the main ones in the standard testing distribution within > Debian. Debian is not a solution to everythi

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 14 2007 15:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: It turns out the one I did not test, was actually the best: Used: 7z -mx=9 a linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z linux-2.6.16.17.tar $ du -sk * | sort -n 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma 33

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 15:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > It turns out the one I did not test, was actually the best: > > Used: 7z -mx=9 a linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z linux-2.6.16.17.tar > > $ du -sk * | sort -n > 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z > 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma > 33760 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar > 3806