From: Kenneth Johansson <kenneth.johansson@inn.ericsson.se>
To: Subodh Nijsure <SNijsure@SkyStream.com>
Cc: "'linuxppc-embedded '" <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Improving ramdisk uncompression time...
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 18:27:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BBC8DE8.3AE9B8FC@inn.ericsson.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: B25E2E5A003CD311B61E00902778AF2A02637AD2@SERVER1
Subodh Nijsure wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My setup has rather large ramdisk 5MB as the ramdisk contains
> firmware for other boards in the system. In total boot time of
> about 60 seconds, close to 50% is spent in uncompressing the ramdisk.
I have a 10MB ramdisk when compresses is a little over 2MB. On a 405 in
200MHz this takes 1 second to uncompress.
Are you sure you have cache working.
You could try to use cramfs. Then the the data don't have to be uncompressed.
I think I have not used it myself.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-04 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-04 8:54 Improving ramdisk uncompression time Subodh Nijsure
2001-10-04 10:59 ` Nguyen Trung Thanh
2001-10-04 16:27 ` Kenneth Johansson [this message]
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