Re: RPM roadmapping

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai redhat com>]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 13:23 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> > CPU time isn't really an issue; the
> > output is being limited by disk i/o.  You're basically not going to be
> > cpu bound unless your target media is *extremely* fast.
>
> ... Have you ever used bzip2? It really is *that* slow. It can not keep
> up with disk IO on any machine I've ever used.

bzip2 also uses quite a bit more memory than gzip, might be an issue in 
the somewhat constrained installer environment.

	- Panu -