Compressing files (gz versus bz2 versus xz)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 17:44, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> 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.




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