Re: ftp.au.kernel.org added for a local kernel mirror

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From: Bill Metzenthen
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00

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On Tue, 05 Jan 1999 13:53:28 GMT, Steven Blunt <spblunt@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>If your short on space, wouldn't it make sense to just host bz2?
>

Based on my (single) observation, I think that .gz is the better
choice.  Uncompressing .bz2 files appears to be a real memory hog.  I
once made the mistake of downloading a large .bz2 compressed file to a
machine with 8MByte memory.  Uncompressing it caused the machine to
swap like crazy; from memory, it took nearly an hour to complete the
uncompressing.

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From: billm@melbpc.org.au (Bill Metzenthen)
Subject: Re: ftp.au.kernel.org added for a local kernel mirror
Date: 1999/01/06
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