https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809742 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809742#c0 Summary: Please stop using gzip -9 in mkinitrd Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: andi-nbz@firstfloor.org QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 [This is really for 12.3 and beyond, but bugzilla doesn't know that release yet?] Kernel installs with full modules always take incredible long (several minutes) This is related to mkinitrd using gzip -9 to compress the initrd. -9 only gives a tiny bit of space saving, but takes a lot longer than the default settings. I usually remove the -9, but every update brings it back. - Consider changing the default: just drop the -9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23232956 Mar 15 22:47 initrd-3.7.10-1.1-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23355299 Mar 15 22:47 initrd-3.7.10-1.1-default-gzip-default Only 0.5% difference. - If you really want to keep it make it a sysconfig setting at least. - If you really want to save space rather use bzip2 or so, the kernel should support that and it's still much faster than gzip -9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21588996 Mar 15 22:48 initrd-3.7.10-1.1-default.bz2 ~8% savings over both gzips. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.