Re: [Sks-devel] sks dumps

[Stephan Seitz]

By using bzip2 -9 on single pgp files, the savings are
an average 17%. Each 24MB is shrinked to appx. 20MB.
Even if the saving currently sums up to ~800MB (4,8G vs. ~4G),
I had higher expectations on that.



Am Donnerstag, den 26.07.2012, 14:06 -0700 schrieb Chris Kuethe:
> last time, i set up two instances of SKS, one of which was running on
> localhost and only peered with my public server. i could then drop the
> private server and do all kinds of bad things to it...
> 
> have you measured any significant saving from compressing the .pgp
> files? i thought keys are already compressed data... one giant file is
> a bad idea: that makes it more difficult to download small chunks.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Stephan Seitz
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm going to create weekly or daily (currently undecided) dumps of the
> > sks-db.
> >
> > If I'ld offer that dumps for download, is there some best-practice how the
> > URL
> > should look like and how to offer them?
> >
> > Putting plain sks-dump-*.pgp would be a huge waste of bandwidth. Is some
> > type
> > of archive preferred or recommended? Maybe bzip2'ing every single .pgp file?
> > Or put it into on tar.bz2?
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestion,
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > - Stephan
> >

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