RPM roadmapping

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Fri Aug 3 07:36:58 UTC 2007


On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 13:23 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
>> CPU time isn't really an issue; the
>> output is being limited by disk i/o.  You're basically not going to be
>> cpu bound unless your target media is *extremely* fast.
>
> ... Have you ever used bzip2? It really is *that* slow. It can not keep
> up with disk IO on any machine I've ever used.

bzip2 also uses quite a bit more memory than gzip, might be an issue in 
the somewhat constrained installer environment.

 	- Panu -




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