On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 07:48:54PM -0300, Nicol?s Lichtmaier wrote: > > > Speed reasons - gzip is significantly faster than bzip2, which matters > > > for old ix86 (x=3,4) and m68k machines which run Debian. > > > > bzip2 also uses more memory which can be an issue with lowmemory > > systems. > > I had a 486 with 8Mb and with `bzip2 -s' I could use bzipped packages > perfectly... are we talking about 4 Mb mechines?
Do you realize how much ram dpkg itself already takes up? Add that to bzip2 and you are definitely swapping, even with 8 megs of RAM. Heck, doing this, and you need 16megs *free* physical memory just to keep from swapping. As for 4 meg machines, the current gzip setup is almost unbearable just for that (believe me, I have an 8 meg system, and I don't want to even imagine a 4 meg system trying to handle dpkg, much less dpkg+bzip2). Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
