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Date:      Sun, 12 May 2013 19:54:11 +0400 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r250565 - head/etc
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305121952120.44610@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <201305121523.r4CFNxBR055568@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201305121523.r4CFNxBR055568@svn.freebsd.org>

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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.

Do you have any estimation chart on different CPUs and architectures?

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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