Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the
> archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression
> is similar.
...
> Lzma: 34306752 Bytes
> Compressing  : 19410 mrvn       0  376m 370m R 97.2 36.9   1:58.33 lzma -9
> Decompressing: 19488 mrvn       0  100m  79m R 96.8  7.9   0:03.24 lzma

Should you be using the "-9" option?  The lzma help output says this:

  -3 .. -9          good to excellent compression. -7 is the default.
     --fast         alias for -1
     --best         alias for -9 (usually *not* what you want)

-miles
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