On Friday 2013-06-28 03:58, Linda Walsh wrote:
Speaking of compression types, since initrd size has been mentioned in the parallel thread of /boot to small, the use of xz could reduce the size by some 30%.
---- FWIW, using lzop can give boosts in speed as it cuts down the quantity read, but xz is heavy in CPU usage, and might slow things down on many systems.
Yes, I too had LZO already in mind because of that. Is there a parallelizing implementation like there is for pigz/pbzip2/pixz/plzip?
Unfortunately there is no one right answer, cuz, people with faster disks don't need as much compression, while people with faster cpu's vs. disks can easily make that trade.
Indeed. It might also depend on bootloader - it seems to me that booting from USB (with hard disk or Torito configuration), optical (Torito) and PXE, all three using syslinux (3.x), take/took longer than GRUB (0.97) on a rotating/SSD disk on the same system. A sysconfig variable should be easiest :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org