Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2support for distribution patches)

[Alex Zepeda]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Don Lewis wrote:

> Doesn't bzip2 require a lot more memory for decompression?  As I
> recall, someone mentioned that this would cause problems for installing
> releases on machines with only a small amount of RAM.

man bzip2, and then look at the memory management section.  I'm sure bzip2
takes more memory to encode/decode but I wonder how it compares when using
-s.  FWIW, I think that there are already problems with installing with
less than 12mb ram in the first place (or so I've heard).

- alex



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