Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:32:07 +0100 Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> wrote:

| However, please keep in mind that it's a *PITA* if you're working on a
| machine with not > 500MHz and > 128MB RAM:
| 
| jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ ls -l linux-2.5.65.tar.*
| -rw-r--r--    1 jbglaw   jbglaw   31889910 Mar 20 11:37
| linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2
| -rw-r--r--    1 jbglaw   jbglaw   39711645 Mar 20 11:44
| linux-2.5.65.tar.gz
| jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ time tar xjf linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2
| 
| real    194m21.665s
| user    172m55.026s
| sys     14m19.018s
| jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ mv linux-2.5.65 linux-2.5.65xx
| jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ time tar xzf linux-2.5.65.tar.gz
| 
| real    39m39.294s
| user    22m32.306s
| sys     13m56.524s
| jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ free
|              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
| Mem:         10100       9792        308          0        952       5232
...
| jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
...
| bogomips        : 15.10
| 
| jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ uname -a
| Linux schnarchnase 2.5.65 #1 Thu Mar 20 07:39:11 CET 2003 i486 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

What kind of processor/system is that?

I also see quite a difference in untarring gz vs. bz2.

On a Pentium classic with genuine f00f bug, 180 Mhz, 80 MB of RAM,
running Linux 2.5.64, I get:

[rddunlap@eeyore linsrc]$ time tar xzf linux-2.5.65.tar.gz
41.98user 38.15system 1:45.94elapsed 75%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (314major+97minor)pagefaults 0swaps
[rddunlap@eeyore linsrc]$ mv linux-2.5.65 linux-2565

[rddunlap@eeyore linsrc]$ time tar xjf linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2
243.99user 39.62system 5:29.39elapsed 86%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (324major+971minor)pagefaults 0swaps

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~Randy