The bz2 tarball of hwloc 1.0.2 was 2.1MB. hwloc 1.1 will be at least 2.7MB. I know that bandwidth is free, but I am still not confortable with the size increasing that much.
Obviously, the problem comes from tarballs under tests/linux: 605774 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ppc-8n8s4t.tar.gz 311293 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ppc-8n8s4t-nocache.tar.gz 232021 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ppc-8n8s4t-nosys.tar.gz 81856 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/48amd64-4d2n6c-sparse.tar.gz 72906 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/96em64t-4n4d3ca2co.tar.gz 72839 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/128ia64-17n4s2c.tar.gz 53033 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/64fake-4n2s2ca2c2t.tar.gz 41148 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ia64-64n2s2c.tar.gz 29786 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/8em64t-4c2t.tar.gz 23947 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ia64-64n2s2c.tar.gz.output 20391 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ppc-8n8s4t-nocache.tar.gz.output 20391 28 sept. 08:12 tests/linux/256ppc-8n8s4t.tar.gz.output Ideas: 1) Remove useless tarballs: Some early machines are very simple and likely covered by larger machines added later to the test suite. But those early tarballs are small anyway, there's not much improvement to expect there. 2) The *extracted* size of the tarballs looks mostly related to directory sizes (multiple of 4kB), I don't know if we can hope an improvement inside the tarball for these, I assume that tar already compresses them properly... 3) Reduce duplication between variants: Have the test script remove some parts of the extracted tarball directly instead of keeping multiple variants of the same machines with/without some files. This one should help, I'll work on it tonight. 4) Remove some useless files from the tarballs. Assuming we know what we'll need in the future... there's likely something to remove under the topology, cache, and device-tree directories. 5) Stop distributing tarballs. having them in SVN is useful. I am not sure about this one, maybe wait for some users to actually complain about the tarball size :) 6) Try to generate some of our huge tarballs manually. Any intern to do this? :) Any other idea? Brice
