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Use XZ compression in binary caches

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XZ compresses significantly better than bzip2.  Here are the
compression ratios and execution times (using 4 cores in parallel) on
my /var/run/current-system (3.1 GiB):

  bzip2: total compressed size 849.56 MiB, 30.8% [2m08]
  xz -6: total compressed size 641.84 MiB, 23.4% [6m53]
  xz -7: total compressed size 621.82 MiB, 22.6% [7m19]
  xz -8: total compressed size 599.33 MiB, 21.8% [7m18]
  xz -9: total compressed size 588.18 MiB, 21.4% [7m40]

Note that compression takes much longer.  More importantly, however,
decompression is much faster:

  bzip2: 1m47.274s
  xz -6: 0m55.446s
  xz -7: 0m54.119s
  xz -8: 0m52.388s
  xz -9: 0m51.842s

The only downside to using -9 is that decompression takes a fair
amount (~65 MB) of memory.
This commit is contained in:
Eelco Dolstra 2012-06-29 14:26:31 -04:00
parent 49cd7387ad
commit 4911a10a4e
6 changed files with 24 additions and 19 deletions
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@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ close READ or die "nix-build failed: $?";
print STDERR "uploading/copying archives...\n";
my $totalNarSize = 0;
my $totalNarBz2Size = 0;
my $totalCompressedSize = 0;
for (my $n = 0; $n < scalar @storePaths; $n++) {
my $storePath = $storePaths[$n];
@ -146,22 +146,22 @@ for (my $n = 0; $n < scalar @storePaths; $n++) {
$totalNarSize += $narSize;
# Get info about the compressed NAR.
open HASH, "$narDir/narbz2-hash" or die "cannot open narbz2-hash";
my $narBz2Hash = <HASH>;
chomp $narBz2Hash;
$narBz2Hash =~ /^[0-9a-z]+$/ or die "invalid hash";
open HASH, "$narDir/nar-compressed-hash" or die "cannot open nar-compressed-hash";
my $compressedHash = <HASH>;
chomp $compressedHash;
$compressedHash =~ /^[0-9a-z]+$/ or die "invalid hash";
close HASH;
my $narName = "$narBz2Hash.nar.bz2";
my $narName = "$compressedHash.nar.bz2";
my $narFile = "$narDir/$narName";
(-f $narFile) or die "NAR file for $storePath not found";
my $narBz2Size = stat($narFile)->size;
$totalNarBz2Size += $narBz2Size;
my $compressedSize = stat($narFile)->size;
$totalCompressedSize += $compressedSize;
printf STDERR "%s [%.2f MiB, %.1f%%]\n", $storePath,
$narBz2Size / (1024 * 1024), $narBz2Size / $narSize * 100;
$compressedSize / (1024 * 1024), $compressedSize / $narSize * 100;
# Upload the compressed NAR.
if ($localCopy) {
@ -184,13 +184,13 @@ for (my $n = 0; $n < scalar @storePaths; $n++) {
my $info;
$info .= "StorePath: $storePath\n";
$info .= "URL: $narName\n";
$info .= "CompressedHash: sha256:$narBz2Hash\n";
$info .= "CompressedSize: $narBz2Size\n";
$info .= "CompressedHash: sha256:$compressedHash\n";
$info .= "CompressedSize: $compressedSize\n";
$info .= "NarHash: $narHash\n";
$info .= "NarSize: $narSize\n";
$info .= "References: " . join(" ", map { basename $_ } @{$refs}) . "\n";
if (defined $deriver) {
$info .= "Deriver: " . basename $deriver, "\n";
$info .= "Deriver: " . basename $deriver . "\n";
if (isValidPath($deriver)) {
my $drv = derivationFromPath($deriver);
$info .= "System: $drv->{platform}\n";
@ -214,4 +214,4 @@ for (my $n = 0; $n < scalar @storePaths; $n++) {
}
printf STDERR "total compressed size %.2f MiB, %.1f%%\n",
$totalNarBz2Size / (1024 * 1024), $totalNarBz2Size / $totalNarSize * 100;
$totalCompressedSize / (1024 * 1024), $totalCompressedSize / $totalNarSize * 100;