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Date:      Sun, 12 May 2013 17:27:39 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r250565 - head/etc
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgkWx5OGmyEJXwwReyXrKxB9nBPLovKhTofqzbsE7Hdz5w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305121952120.44610@woozle.rinet.ru>
References:  <201305121523.r4CFNxBR055568@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305121952120.44610@woozle.rinet.ru>

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On 12 May 2013 11:54, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> 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.
>
> Do you have any estimation chart on different CPUs and architectures?

I tend to be of the opinion that defaults can be changed...

... but by request I reverted this change.

-- 
Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
Bugmeister, Ports Security teams



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