Am 29.11.2010 19:31, schrieb jhell: > Adding to this, as the manual says... The decompressing host will need > to have at minimal 5% -> 20% of memory 'available' for decompression of > what the compressing host had. Seeing as FreeBSD still runs on systems > with memory as little as 200MB "~20% of 1024MB" and quite possible to > run on systems with memory of 64MB "~5% of 1024MB" I would not see any > benefit in modifying the default memory limit on a compressing host to > accommodate for these system rather than using gzip(1) or bzip2(1) by > default.
You can specify limits during compression, so the question is should we do that so that hosts with N MB of RAM can decompress packages? Do we retain the compression ratio over bzip2 if we limit compression memory to 512 MB so that decompression would be possible with, say, 128 MB? > It would be nice to support xz(1) compression for large selective > packages like firefox or openoffice as those will never run on smaller > systems. Yes, would be nice. I doubt it will happen soon. -- Matthias Andree _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
