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To use lzma compression instead gzip
We are using lzma compression now
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Discussing this with @rjek, he has suggested pbzip2, falling back to bzip2... i'll look into that |
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For clarification; the reason I suggested bzip2 (and using pbzip2 if it is available) is because it is more widely found and it is much much faster. If size were there only metric, I would agree LZMA is probably the best choice; but build time is also a consideration. pbzip2 scales almost linearly with number of CPU cores. |
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In my testing, this makes the linux kernel cache file decrease from 20MB to 15MB
Still, I have used the maximum compression (9), wich the documentation warns about, so maybe more testing about timing/memory is needed
Closes #216