Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:55:36PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > iso files aren't compressed. When downloading a new OS CD, I wish they
> > were gzipped; would save a bunch of telephone time.
>
> I wonder how compressible they are.
Well, I suppose it depends on what's on it.
I just tried an older version of OpenBSD iso, but its mostly compressed
tarballs already.
Here's the results of that:
total 420M
-rw------- 1 dtutty dtutty 419M Sep 9 12:50 obsd.iso.gz
-rw------- 1 dtutty dtutty 129 Mar 3 12:32 time.txt
34.97user 1.30system 0:36.88elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+241minor)pagefaults 0swaps
That's the output of time to the command:
/usr/bin/time -o time.txt gzip -v -9 obsd.iso
It reduced it by 7.3% in looks like 36 seconds. This is on my Athlon64
3800+ with 1 GB ram stick, running Etch amd64.
It took 14 seconds to gunzip.
So if debian cd's are also mostly tarballs (debs), perhaps it wouldn't
save much.
Doug.
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