Public bug reported: Binary package hint: foomatic-db
The /usr/share/ppd directory uses a lot of disk space. All the ppd files are currently compressed by using gzip. I think that using lzma would decrease the disk space used as well as improve the decompression speed. Below is a comparaison for the file /usr/share/ppd/openprinting/KONICA_MINOLTA/KO1050UX.ppd.gz: ----- j...@j-desktop:~$ du KO1050UX.ppd* 256 KO1050UX.ppd 24 KO1050UX.ppd.gz 16 KO1050UX.ppd.lzma j...@j-desktop:~$ time { for i in {0..999} ; do unlzma -c KO1050UX.ppd.lzma >/dev/null ; done } real 0m18.765s user 0m7.060s sys 0m11.560s j...@j-desktop:~$ time { for i in {0..999} ; do gunzip -c KO1050UX.ppd.gz >/dev/null ; done } real 0m23.183s user 0m6.840s sys 0m16.170s j...@j-desktop:~$ ----- ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 CupsErrorLog: E [08/Oct/2009:11:27:00 +0200] Unable to remove temporary file "/var/spool/cups/tmp/.hplip" - Is a directory E [08/Oct/2009:12:32:08 +0200] Unable to remove temporary file "/var/spool/cups/tmp/.hplip" - Is a directory CurrentDmesg: [ 18.390080] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -449463366 ns) [ 18.920203] eth0: no IPv6 routers present [ 764.424483] oosplash.bin[1546]: segfault at 7f7e88ef9ae8 ip 0000000000403db1 sp 00007fff38619400 error 6 in oosplash.bin[400000+7000] Date: Thu Oct 8 13:04:08 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: No destinations added. Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1: Package: openprinting-ppds 20090825-0ubuntu3 PackageArchitecture: all Papersize: a4 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-12-generic root=UUID=a4218aa5-7e30-45af-85dd-f9c3b1ce603a ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic SourcePackage: foomatic-db Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:1182): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:1182): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (nautilus:1227): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1236): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed dmi.bios.date: 01/01/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: QEMU dmi.bios.version: QEMU dmi.chassis.type: 1 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnQEMU:bvrQEMU:bd01/01/2007:svn:pn:pvr:cvn:ct1:cvr: ** Affects: foomatic-db (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug -- lzma more efficient than gzip https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446245 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs