I second this request, and I add, bzip2 is known to be difficult in CPU usage to decompress. Perhaps alternative methods doesn't sound bad at all.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:15 PM, lwf <[email protected]> wrote: > A similarly similar request, although this is already getting a bit > deeper than just adding support for better compression; it would be > great if custom content needed for the next map (in most or all cases > that would be map itself) could be downloaded at a slow rate in the > background, much like how the replay system does. > > That way the time waiting could be further reduced to nothing at all > or at least being shorten if the download doesn't get enough time to > complete. > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 21:32, Claudio Beretta > <[email protected]> wrote: > > A related request: allow multiple resource files to be packed in a single > > (LZMA?) compressed archive. > > > > Modded servers may require several files to be downloaded by new players, > > especially if non stock models are used. These files may be small in size > > but there are a lot of them, so the round trip time is the biggest factor > > slowing the transfer. > > Adding support for archives with better compression will improve the user > > experience, and make admins happier too (the stats for my fastdownload > site > > report ~55GB of transferred files and 200K hits every day, 70GB and 250K > > hits on saturday/sunday) > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Adam Nowacki <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> As of now custom content (custom maps mostly) on the server can be > >> compressed with bzip2 to reduce the time clients have to wait on the > >> loading screen. While the compression ratio of bzip2 is already quite > good > >> there is a far better alternative: LZMA (see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > >> **LZMA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA>). Decompression code is very > >> simple, small and free/open-source libraries are available. > >> > >> Below is a comparison of bzip2 and LZMA for the custom maps hosted on my > >> server (team fortress 2), bzip2 compressed files are from 1.3 to 2.3 > times > >> larger than LZMA compressed ones: > >> 1.4x cp_antiquity_rc1.bsp (bzip2: 31.6MiB, lzma: 22.1MiB) > >> 1.9x cp_crossroads_b5.bsp (bzip2: 20.4MiB, lzma: 10.9MiB) > >> 1.3x cp_glacier_rc6.bsp (bzip2: 33.8MiB, lzma: 26.5MiB) > >> 2.3x cp_mainline_rc5.bsp (bzip2: 22.8MiB, lzma: 10.0MiB) > >> 1.7x cp_snakewater.bsp (bzip2: 31.6MiB, lzma: 18.4MiB) > >> 1.7x cp_upland_rc2.bsp (bzip2: 39.7MiB, lzma: 23.7MiB) > >> 2.2x cp_vertigo_beta3.bsp (bzip2: 21.6MiB, lzma: 9.8MiB) > >> 1.8x cp_zinkenite_b3a.bsp (bzip2: 73.5MiB, lzma: 41.8MiB) > >> 1.5x ctf_converge_b3.bsp (bzip2: 35.3MiB, lzma: 23.6MiB) > >> 1.8x ctf_haarp.bsp (bzip2: 39.4MiB, lzma: 22.1MiB) > >> 1.9x ctf_landfall_rc.bsp (bzip2: 22.8MiB, lzma: 11.7MiB) > >> 1.5x ctf_premuda_b1b.bsp (bzip2: 53.2MiB, lzma: 36.5MiB) > >> 1.8x ctf_vector_v1.bsp (bzip2: 23.4MiB, lzma: 13.1MiB) > >> 1.5x ctf_wildfire_rc.bsp (bzip2: 21.1MiB, lzma: 14.1MiB) > >> 1.3x koth_namicott_rc1.bsp (bzip2: 12.8MiB, lzma: 9.7MiB) > >> 1.8x pl_borneo_v1.bsp (bzip2: 21.7MiB, lzma: 12.2MiB) > >> 2.0x pl_boundary_final.bsp (bzip2: 20.9MiB, lzma: 10.7MiB) > >> 1.3x pl_cashworks_prefinal.bsp (bzip2: 42.1MiB, lzma: 31.3MiB) > >> 1.6x pl_manngrove_rc5.bsp (bzip2: 29.8MiB, lzma: 18.8MiB) > >> 1.3x pl_mill_b5.bsp (bzip2: 32.4MiB, lzma: 25.5MiB) > >> 2.0x pl_outback_rc4.bsp (bzip2: 27.7MiB, lzma: 14.1MiB) > >> 1.3x pl_problematique_a3.bsp (bzip2: 4.7MiB, lzma: 3.6MiB) > >> 2.1x pl_yamashiro_b3.bsp (bzip2: 16.2MiB, lzma: 7.8MiB) > >> 1.9x plr_panic_b2.bsp (bzip2: 37.1MiB, lzma: 19.7MiB) > >> 1.7x tc_meridian_rc3.bsp (bzip2: 42.1MiB, lzma: 24.1MiB) > >> > >> ______________________________**_________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > >> please visit: > >> https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux< > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
