On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Though one also has to consider the speed of reading it off the drive >> for processing. If you have spinning-rust drives, it's pretty slow >> (and SSD is still not like accessing RAM), and reading zipped >> content can shovel a LOT more data at your CPU than if it is coming >> off the drive uncompressed. Logs aren't much good if they aren't >> being monitored and processed for the information they contain. If >> nobody is monitoring the logs, just write them to /dev/null for 100% >> compression. ;-) >> >> -tkc >> > > Can you get better than 100% compression if you write them to somewhere > other than /dev/null/ ?
If you write them to /dev/sda, you might be able to create free space where there was none before. It all depends on the exact content of your logs :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
