I'm not sure that network traffic should be a concern even with
uncompressed repos, p2's requests support gzip responses and I believe
most web servers will have gzip enabled by default.
Matthew
On 17/11/2010 1:00 PM, Dean Roberts wrote:
The primary concern for uncompressed repositories would be network
traffic and to a lesser extent disk footprint.
Dean Roberts, J9 Java Class Library Team
IBM Ottawa Lab
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Can you be more specific about concerns that you have?
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On 10-11-17 10:00 AM, Dean Roberts wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am trying go get a feel for how widely used uncompressed metadata
> repositories are.
>
> A typical content.xml file contains many copies of identical license
> text. Memory use is not an issue since the implementation uses a
> StringPool to extern string references. Compressed repositories do not
> present an issue for disk foot print or network traffic as the
> content.xml compresses extremely well, typically 95% or more.
>
> However, uncompressed metadata repositories may pose a significant
> concern here if they are widely used.
>
> So does anybody have an opinion on how widely used uncompressed
> repositories are?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dean Roberts, J9 Java Class Library Team
> IBM Ottawa Lab
> 613-356-5099
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>
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