Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:16:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:16:02 -0500 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:5322 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:16:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:23:34 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Jan-Benedict Glaw Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org Message-Id: <20030320092334.31ee2254.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030320163207.GH28454@lug-owl.de> References: <3E78D0DE.307@zytor.com> <20030320163207.GH28454@lug-owl.de> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2015 Lines: 55 On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:32:07 +0100 Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: | However, please keep in mind that it's a *PITA* if you're working on a | machine with not > 500MHz and > 128MB RAM: | | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ ls -l linux-2.5.65.tar.* | -rw-r--r-- 1 jbglaw jbglaw 31889910 Mar 20 11:37 | linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2 | -rw-r--r-- 1 jbglaw jbglaw 39711645 Mar 20 11:44 | linux-2.5.65.tar.gz | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ time tar xjf linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2 | | real 194m21.665s | user 172m55.026s | sys 14m19.018s | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ mv linux-2.5.65 linux-2.5.65xx | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ time tar xzf linux-2.5.65.tar.gz | | real 39m39.294s | user 22m32.306s | sys 13m56.524s | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ free | total used free shared buffers cached | Mem: 10100 9792 308 0 952 5232 ... | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ cat /proc/cpuinfo ... | bogomips : 15.10 | | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ uname -a | Linux schnarchnase 2.5.65 #1 Thu Mar 20 07:39:11 CET 2003 i486 unknown unknown GNU/Linux What kind of processor/system is that? I also see quite a difference in untarring gz vs. bz2. On a Pentium classic with genuine f00f bug, 180 Mhz, 80 MB of RAM, running Linux 2.5.64, I get: [rddunlap@eeyore linsrc]$ time tar xzf linux-2.5.65.tar.gz 41.98user 38.15system 1:45.94elapsed 75%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (314major+97minor)pagefaults 0swaps [rddunlap@eeyore linsrc]$ mv linux-2.5.65 linux-2565 [rddunlap@eeyore linsrc]$ time tar xjf linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2 243.99user 39.62system 5:29.39elapsed 86%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (324major+971minor)pagefaults 0swaps -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/