[arch-general] Multi-threaded mkinitpcio

[Pascal]

hi,

change the COMPRESSION variable to lz4 ou lzop in your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
: it will considerably reduce the compression time.

grep COMP /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
# COMPRESSION
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"
#COMPRESSION="xz"
#COMPRESSION="lzop"
COMPRESSION="lz4"
# COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
#COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=()

see here
<https://catchchallenger.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip_vs_Bzip2_vs_LZMA_vs_XZ_vs_LZ4_vs_LZO>
for quick  benchmarks...

regards, lacsaP.

Le ven. 3 avr. 2020 à 08:08, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org> a écrit :

> On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 04:36:37 +0200, mpan wrote:
> >Half of the time mkinitcpio was waiting for disk I/O.
>
> Even while it's unlikely that only mkinitcpio suffers from a damaged
> HDD and even while smartctl not necessarily does show issues of a
> already damaged aged HDD, I would run smartctl and take a look, if it
> shows something fishy.
>