On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:23:39PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > On 5/12/2013 8:54 AM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > On Sun, 12 May 2013, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > >> Author: eadler > >> Date: Sun May 12 15:23:59 2013 > >> New Revision: 250565 > >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/250565 > >> > >> Log: > >> Make newsyslog compress logs with xz instead of bzip2 to save space. > > While it may be useful for contemporary x64 machines, where CPU power is > > not an > > issue, I'm afraid it could produce more harm than goodness on old hardware > > and/or other architectures like arm. > > > > > +1
iirc there was a discussion about it a year or 2 ago, where it was stated that most of the time the gain of using xz for newsyslog was insignificant, pretty much no space saved, but the loss in cpu time was significant. Bapt
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