What about the RAM usage? I can't even use it often on my devio.us account because there's shared RAM with other users. Seems like an embedded system might have a problem with that too.
On 1/3/16, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:54:11AM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> Size of initrd is always an issue on embedded platform. Surely XZ can >> extremely reduce the size, however as I remember, it takes MUCH more >> time to finish update-initramfs command. >> >> Did you evaluate how long does it take to generate one initramfs image >> on QNAP box? >> Maybe I missed a kernel module that can speed up the xz compression, I >> cannot finish update-initramfs within 5 minutes, which is too long for >> me. So I'm curious how fast on your box. > > xz compression is slow (not bzip2 slow, but still slow). At least > it decompresses fast. I would think for people running stable, the > compression time would not be a big deal given how infrrequent it is. > If you are running sid, well that could start to get annoying if you > don't actually need the extra compression on your system. > > -- > Len Sorensen > > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
