Andreas Schwab wrote:
Per Jessen
writes: It's probably a reasonable trade-off, especially for large initrds. Even for relatively tiny initrds, using xz gives a decent saving:
Compr Size Time gzip 5379419 10s xz 3936824 18s
8s extra runtime
Which is about 80% more.
Yes, but still only 8 seconds. Not enough to make a cup of coffee. I rarely boot any machine, but for a desktop machine with a large initrd, it won't be many boots before it's paid off (in time saved loading), I would think. Philipp's point is probably more important though:
Those are compression times? What about the much more important decompression times at boot?
I haven't measured it - perhaps similar? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.6°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org