On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 07:29:09PM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Daniel Alley wrote: > > > One more point: createrepo_c uses zstd compression level 10, but the range > > > goes all the way up to level 22. I would oppose making the default much > > > computationally heavier than it is currently, but if spending 20x longer > > > to compress the repo 10% more is desirable to the fedora project, then > > > createrepo_c could perhaps add a the ability to select a compression > > > level. > > > > > > zstd at high compression levels is very nearly as good at compressing as > > > xz and sometimes better, while remaining much faster to decompress. -- > > > > Considering that compression happens once on the server and downloading and > > decompression happens many times on many computers, I think we should use > > the highest possible compression level. > > +1 >
Keep in mind we also want to make the compose process faster too, I don't know if it's worth it to spend 20x more time compressing repodata when we keep trying to get back hours and minutes in the compose time. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
