-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-04-05 at 17:12 +0100, Francis Giannaros wrote:
Another improvemennt would be separating the download and the install on diferent threads or whatever, so that the next rpm is been downloaded while another is beeng installed.
This was something proposed for ZYpp, but I'm not sure quite what happened. Parallel downloads in addition to this (like Smart) would help, too.
It would be nice. I have been 5 hours downloading things... a part of that time is the installation time.
Higher compression also means longer time decompressing, thus longer time not downloading and perhaps longer overall time. Mmmm! That would be curious to measure!
See http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3326 for some figures and explanation.
[...] Interesting! So he did measure it. :-) Ok, er... how about measuring with slow machines? :-) (ducking)
Higher compression doesn't have to necessitate either longer time decompressing or even longer time compressing -- it depends on the efficiency of your algorithm.
In this case, LZMA gives considerable benefits for both the size and the speed of decompression in comparison to bzip2.
Could be. Byt default the logs are compressed as bzip2 nowdays; when I have to search in them using zgrep it takes way longer, so that I'm considering forcing gzip again.... done. "apropos lzma" returns nothing. What utility is used? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH98DEtTMYHG2NR9URAn6uAKCE2cn7/UI1uhP8Nds33xPw0hpX0gCcCD22 YsuvmokvkKAo0Ta82J97EEU= =6n3t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org