Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:32:07 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org |
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On Wed, 2003-03-19 12:19:42 -0800, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote in message <3E78D0DE.307@zytor.com>: > Hello everyone, > > At some point it probably would make sense to start deprecating .gz > format files from kernel.org.
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 -/+ buffers/cache: 3608 6492 Swap: 292816 1484 291332 jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : UMC UMC UMC cpu family : 4 model : 2 model name : ff/02 stepping : 3 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : no fpu_exception : no cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : 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
MfG, JBG
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