On 09/04/2014 03:10 AM, Christian Kastner wrote: > Benefits: from the numbers posted in this thread, the size savings > compared to the default compression level for some sample packages are > somewhere around 3% to 4%. I claim that *practical* benefits from this > saving are insignificant to minor at best; counter-examples to this > claim are welcome.
If you're doing a large deployment of a cluster, and that your bottleneck is the network and/or the mirrors, but you don't really care how fast your nodes are uncompressing, and if anyway they always have a lot of RAM, then you will effectively "win" 3 to 4% of the time needed to deploy your cluster. Now imagine that this is a big HPC system that we're talking about, and that you're paying a large amount of money to rent it, then it's well possible that 3 to 4% is a significant cost. Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54230916.90...@debian.org
