Re: [Tails-dev] Slower boot on experimental branch [Was: [Ta…

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Autor: intrigeri
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Betreff: Re: [Tails-dev] Slower boot on experimental branch [Was: [Tails-testers] Please test Tails ISO with updated syslinux]
intrigeri wrote (09 Aug 2014 11:42:17 GMT) :
> I suspect feature/7705-smaller-squashfs (merged into experimental, but
> not into devel yet) might make the SquashFS decompression heavier
> CPU-wise (even if it's lighter IO-wise), which might be a problem with
> older machines such as the X61.


It might also be the case that the new xz compression options make the
resulting SquashFS slower to read and/or decompress due to our
outdated sort file: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6372 (It was
outdated, and now it's *very* outdated since we've migrated
to Wheezy.)

Cheers,
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intrigeri