From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261221AbVFFIUG (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 04:20:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261220AbVFFIUF (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 04:20:05 -0400 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:1548 "EHLO willy.net1.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261225AbVFFITl (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 04:19:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:19:28 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com Subject: Re: Easy trick to reduce kernel footprint Message-ID: <20050606081928.GA15312@alpha.home.local> References: <20050605223528.GA13726@alpha.home.local> <20050606074745.GC24826@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050606074745.GC24826@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:47:45AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > On Mon, 6 June 2005 00:35:28 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > I recently discovered p7zip which comes with the LZMA compression algorithm, > > which is somewhat better than gzip and bzip2 on most datasets, [...] > > Hmmm. > > Citeseer has never heard of that algorithm, top 10 google hits for > "LZMA compression algorithm" are completely uninformative. Does > anyone actually know, what this algorithm is doing? It's described here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA implemented here : http://martinus.geekisp.com/rublog.cgi/Projects/LZMA and here : http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html Willy