Zstandard support for setup

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 18:11:00 GMT 2018


Am 17.08.2018 um 20:49 schrieb Achim Gratz:
>
> While it seems like I'm talking to myself, in case anybody is listening:
>
>
> I've had 16 cores to run that on and those stayed at 2.8GHz all the
> time, so it didn't take too long.  Here at home I've tasked two slower
> 4-core machines with it, so they were running a few hours of wall-time.
> I might try long-range matching to get even better compression at work
> since I've got 128GB memory now to see if there's an improvement.  At
> home I've run out of 8GiB memory more than once even with a single
> compression for the largest debuginfo packages.  Incidentally, these
> packages always take the longest time to compress, so if you want to do
> a parallel mass conversion it's advisable to start these first (keeping
> an eye on available memory) and have the faster compression of the
> smaller package archives fill the remaining CPU/time.

memory and time requirements seem not so appealing to me
as my machine has only 8GiB and already the debuginfo on 32bit is
a time consuming effort


> I've installed and updated over a dozen of machines by now with this, so
> I'm reasonably certain that the implementation in setup is OK.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
>

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