Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-10 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 12:53:00AM +, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 10:55:06AM +0200, Adrien Nader wrote: > > There is a little-know but very interesting property of LZMA: its > > decompression speed does not depend on the uncompressed size but only on > > the compressed size. Wh

Idea: Let selection of default fonts be based on Noto

2023-07-10 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Hi all, I would like to make an overhaul of the selection of fonts we ship by default in the Ubuntu desktop. In short I would like to: 1. Install the fonts-noto-core package by default - That package includes sans-serif and serif fonts covering latin as well as a large number of non-latin sc

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-10 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 at 11:17, Benjamin Drung wrote: > On Sun, 2023-07-09 at 15:29 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 04:28:42AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > > > > > Benjamin Drung schrieb am Sa., 8. Juli 2023, > 02:19: > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > a year a

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-10 Thread Seth Arnold
On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 10:55:06AM +0200, Adrien Nader wrote: > There is a little-know but very interesting property of LZMA: its > decompression speed does not depend on the uncompressed size but only on > the compressed size. What this means is that if you compress a 100MB > down to 20MB, it will

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-10 Thread Benjamin Drung
On Mon, 2023-07-10 at 11:09 +0200, Adrien Nader wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2023, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-07-08 at 03:49 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > On Sat, 2023-07-08 at 01:25 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > > > On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 at 01:19, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > >

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-10 Thread Benjamin Drung
On Mon, 2023-07-10 at 16:12 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > On 10.07.23 00:29, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 04:28:42AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > > > > > Benjamin Drung schrieb am Sa., 8. Juli 2023, > > > > > 02:19: > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > a yea

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-10 Thread Benjamin Drung
On Sun, 2023-07-09 at 15:29 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 04:28:42AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > > > > Benjamin Drung schrieb am Sa., 8. Juli 2023, 02:19: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > a year ago we changed the default compression and level for the > > > > > in

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-10 Thread Adrien Nader
On Sat, Jul 08, 2023, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 02:18:52AM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Using xz -9 would give very good compression, but it takes very long > > (especially on slow development boards) and a lot of memory (good luck > > on Raspberry Pis with small memory like

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-10 Thread Adrien Nader
On Sat, Jul 08, 2023, Benjamin Drung wrote: > On Sat, 2023-07-08 at 03:49 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-07-08 at 01:25 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 at 01:19, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > a year ago we changed the defa

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-10 Thread Heinrich Schuchardt
On 10.07.23 00:29, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 04:28:42AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: Benjamin Drung schrieb am Sa., 8. Juli 2023, 02:19: Hi all, a year ago we changed the default compression and level for the initramfs to zstd -1. This fixed the very slow creation