On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 17:44, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> So I was asked to look at compression on log servers and to see if >> changing to xz would save us some space. My test is not comprehensive >> but showed what might happen. >> >> Basic summary. XZ may save us up to 2% over what we are currently >> saving but its real advantage is in speed of uncompressing files over >> bzip2. [compression may be faster for some files also.] >> > > It does take a while to grep through the bzipped logs. if you want to > re-compress them all i say have at it. Ok I will look at it after I get the hardware call in tomorrow. -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
