Where is the discussion happening? I ran the same benchmarks for my i7-6770HQ 4-core system. This really needs revising.
While disk space using in /boot is a concern, in this example at least -10 would use only 8MB (10%) more space and cut the time taken from 2m1s to 13s. zstd.0 84M 0m2.150s zstd.1 96M 0m1.236s zstd.2 90M 0m1.350s zstd.3 84M 0m2.235s zstd.4 84M 0m3.355s zstd.5 81M 0m5.679s zstd.6 81M 0m7.416s zstd.7 78M 0m8.857s zstd.8 77M 0m10.134s zstd.9 77M 0m11.238s zstd.10 72M 0m13.232s zstd.11 72M 0m14.897s zstd.12 72M 0m19.343s zstd.13 72M 0m26.327s zstd.14 72M 0m30.948s zstd.15 72M 0m40.913s zstd.16 70M 0m59.517s zstd.17 66M 1m15.854s zstd.18 64M 1m36.227s zstd.19 64M 2m1.417s -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1958148 Title: mkinitramfs is too slow To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1958148/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs